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JavaScript

Posted by Andrew Young
Andrew Young
Courses Plus Student 639 Points

How to use express static path with req.params

I want to use express.static function to serve some file and here's my path planning

request example:

visit localhost:8080/user/Admin/files/text.txt, it'll serve file from __dirname+'/userfiles/'+'Admin'

And I tried the following code which doesn't work

app.use('/user/:id/files', express.static(__dirname+'userfiles/'+req.params.id));

But it seems like req is undefined so I tried this

app.use('/user/:id/files', function(req, res) {
    express.static(__dirname+'userfiles/'+req.params.id);
});

But it's still not working

Can anyone help me with a solution???