Serve static file from different server express.js

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How to serve static file e.g index.html from different server

app.use(express.static('http://example.com/'))

Why would you not just set the source of the file to the external server? Is this an image? CSS? or? — Brandon Taylor
– Brandon Taylor, Commented Oct 16, 2018 at 14:12
Its html page, i want to show data sent by express server to html page that i serve from different location — stupidcoder
– stupidcoder, Commented Oct 16, 2018 at 14:15
You could use an iFrame to do that. If you need to pass information to the external page, you can use querystring parameters. — Brandon Taylor
– Brandon Taylor, Commented Oct 16, 2018 at 14:22

AndreasPizsa · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-16 15:43:54Z

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A proxy such as http-proxy-middleware can do this:

var express = require('express');
var proxy = require('http-proxy-middleware');

var app = express();

app.use('/api', proxy({target: 'http://www.example.org', changeOrigin: true}));
app.listen(3000);

// http://localhost:3000/api/foo/bar -> http://www.example.org/api/foo/bar

see https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-proxy-middleware

answered Oct 16, 2018 at 15:43

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