In expressjs, how do I bind a route to all urls except /static and /fail

For example, it sound bind to:

/users
/books
/books/anything

but not bind to

/static
/fail
/fail/anything
/static/anything

In expressjs, how do I bind a route to all urls except /static and /fail

For example, it sound bind to:

/users
/books
/books/anything

but not bind to

/static
/fail
/fail/anything
/static/anything

• javascript
• node.js
• regex
• express
• url-routing

• Sounds like bad design. Just bind to users, books, etc individually – Raynos Commented Jul 5, 2011 at 18:16
• @Raynos routing happens on the client side. – Harry Commented Jul 5, 2011 at 18:27
• no routing happens on the server. express runs on the server. – Raynos Commented Jul 5, 2011 at 18:35
• @Raynos express serves one document to all. Actual routing happens on the clientside with backbone.js and html5 pushstate. – Harry Commented Jul 5, 2011 at 18:58
• should have mentioned that in the question ;) – Raynos Commented Jul 5, 2011 at 19:11

2 Answers 2

If you are saying you want to create one route for everything but /static* then here is the mand for creating the GET route:

app.get(/^((?!\/static).)*$/, function(req, res){

    //Do your thing in here...
});

My question was just slightly different and this was the best question/answer bo I found so I wanted to share my solution stolen from Clint's answer. If you need like me to restrict from a list of couple of routes like /static and /fail, the following worked for me:

app.get(/^(?!(\/static|\/fail)).*$/, function(req, res, next){

  //Do your thing in here...
});