Serving Static Content

In Kitura, static content is served using the StaticFileServer middleware.

To set up the middleware, first create your router then specify which path should use the middleware.

import Kitura

let router = Router()

router.all("/static", middleware: StaticFileServer())

In the case above, any request starting with /static will be passed to the StaticFileServer to look for a matching file (ex: /static/about.html will serve the page about.html if found). Note that the request that's just /static will be matched to index.html if found.

When searching for files, StaticFileServer looks by default in the public directory.

  +-- Package.swift
  +-- Sources
  |   +-- MyApp
  |       +-- main.swift
  +-- public
      +-- index.html

To change this default, you can specify your desired path in the path parameter

router.all("/my/path", middleware: StaticFileServer(path: "./files"))