Use Node.JS as REST server and web server

Question

I am writing an application with Angular.js and Node.js.

There is a client-side app written in HTML & Angular.js that needs a web server like Apache to be online.

There is also a server-side REST webservice written in Node.js, built on restify (but I don't care which REST API I use, I can use another one).

I can get the whole thing working using a Node.js server for the REST webservice, and another Node.js server for serving the client-side webapp. But I'd like to have only one Node.js server running, on one URL/port (to prevent cross-domain AJAX requests).

How can I do so?

Answer 1

Not sure if this is applicable to your current problem - but app.use() in Express can let one main application set sub-applications to handle different route prefixes. So you could have your main application point any requests starting with /store/ to one Express app, and any requests to /app/ with a second Express app.

http://expressjs.com/api.html#app.use