An opinionated file server. Designed to sit behind a CDN.

• sha256 etags and consequential 304s
• Caches fs.stat() calls
• Caches etag calculations
• OPTIONS and 405 support
• index.html files
• Optionally serve hidden files
• Caches gzipped versions of files
• SPDY Push support

Does not support:

• Dynamic files - assumes static files never change. You will have to delete files from the cache yourself if files change.
• Directory listing
• Path decoding

var app = require('koa')()
app.use(require('compress')())
app.use(require('koa-file-server')(options))

Options are:

• root <process.cwd()> - root directory. nothing above this root directory can be served
• maxage - cache control max age
• etag - options for etags
  • algorithm - hashing algorithm to use
  • encoding - encoding to use
• index - serve index.html files
• hidden - show hidden files which leading .s

var send = require('koa-file-server')(options).send

serve.send() allows you to serve files as a utility. This is helpful for arbitrary paths. The middleware also adds var file = yield* this.fileServer.send(path).

path defaults to this.request.path.slice(1), removing the leading / to make the path relative.

For an example, see the middleware's source code.

var push = require('koa-file-server')(options).push

Optionally SPDY Push a file. The middleware also adds var file = yield* this.fileServer.send(path, [opts]).

Unlike send(), path is required. path must also be a relative path (without a leading /) relative to the root. The push stream's URL will be '/' + path. Errors will be thrown on unknown files. The only option is priority: 7.