Koa middleware for serving static files

Quite often I find myself using the same snippet of code over and over in projects for serving up static files as part of projects that use Koa. Today I exceeded my limit for copy pasting, so I've bundled this together into a module called koa-serve.

It's probably a lot simpler than koa-static but it works well for what I want and need.

var koa = require('koa'),
    serve = require('koa-serve'),
    app = koa();

app.use(serve('assets'));
app.listen(8000);

You can also define where you root dir is, if isn't __dirname.

var koa = require('koa'),
    serve = require('koa-serve'),
    app = koa();

app.use(serve('assets', '/path/to/your/root'));
app.listen(8000);

Example if your client files are in the parent directory, and index.js is in server/ for example:

var koa = require('koa'),

    serve = require('koa-serve'),

    path = require('path'),

    app = koa();

app.use(serve('assets', path.join(__dirname, '..', 'client'));

app.listen(8000);

Install it

npm install koa-serve

More links

GitHub: https://github.com/adamkdean/koa-serve

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/koa-serve