I would like to use Nest to serve two static applications. Basically it means I have a public folder like

/public
       /admin
       /main

In nest I do

app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/main'));

Now if I go to http://localhost:3000 it will serve /public/main/index.html. This is good, however, when I navigate to http://localhost:3000/admin I want /public/admin/index.html

One solution would be to copy everything inside /main directly into public, but that will plicate my build process, and I have the feeling that what I need is very easy, because in express you can do

app.use('/admin/*', app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/admin')));
app.use(app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/')))

Something like this (not tested, but it feels right :) )

I would like to use Nest to serve two static applications. Basically it means I have a public folder like

/public
       /admin
       /main

In nest I do

app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/main'));

Now if I go to http://localhost:3000 it will serve /public/main/index.html. This is good, however, when I navigate to http://localhost:3000/admin I want /public/admin/index.html

One solution would be to copy everything inside /main directly into public, but that will plicate my build process, and I have the feeling that what I need is very easy, because in express you can do

app.use('/admin/*', app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/admin')));
app.use(app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/')))

Something like this (not tested, but it feels right :) )

• javascript
• node.js
• typescript
• express
• nestjs

1 Answer 1

You can use the prefix option to create a virtual path prefix:

app.useStaticAssets(join(__dirname, '..', 'public/admin'), {prefix: '/admin'});