Expose express library to end users?

I would like to serve my build/dist folder for my static assets when developing/deploying to now or any server. For that I need to install express again and use the static function from there. It would be great if graphql-yoga had this inbuilt for my static assets otherwise it would good enough to re-export the express library for public use.

This is what I’m doing now

import express from 'express';
server.express.use(express.static('dist'));

Something like this would be more easier,

import GraphQLYoga from 'graphql-yoga';
const { GraphQLServer, express } = GraphQLYoga;

const server = new GraphQLServer({ typeDefs, resolvers, options })
server.express.use(express.static('dist'));

else more like this,

const server = new GraphQLServer({ typeDefs, resolvers, options: {
  static: 'dist',
 }});

BTW Great library. I had the same amount of code throughout my projects. This unifies it and also the apollo-upload-server is a plus that too it got recently released too.

[newtmex]

@geminiyellow this worked for me

// Serve static files
server.express.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../client/build')));
// Serve other routes to index...typical for Angular frontend app
server.express.get('*', (req, res, next) => {
   // Handle graphql-yoga specific routes
   if(req.url == options.playground ||
    req.url == options.subscriptions ||
    req.url == options.endpoint) {
      // Return next() so that the GraphQLServer will handle it
      return next();
    }
   res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '../client/build/index.html'))
});

I know this issue is closed, but I felt like contributing a solution that worked for me.

[Urigo]

Hey, @Urigo from The Guild here!

You might know us from projects such as graphql-code-generator, envelop or graphql-tools.

For a long time we thought that the Javascript ecosystem is still missing a lightweight cross-platform, but still highly customizable GraphQL Server.

In the past the awesome Prisma team took on that great challenge and now we are happy to announce that we are continuing them and just released GraphQL Yoga 2.0 - Build fast, extensible, and batteries-included (Subscriptions, Serverless, File uploads support) GraphQL APIs in Node.js 🚀

And regarding the issue here, Yoga is completely separated from the way you do HTTP, so you can easily use and expose anything to express but also use Yoga on many other environments and frameworks like Fastify, Cloudflare Workers, Lambdas and many more (you can find all of them in the docs)

We have been working a long time on version 2.0 and have been using it in our clients projects for a few months now and shared a couple of alpha cycles here. Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions, you made this release possible!

Please try Yoga out again, give us feedback and help us spread the word on the new release!

• Announcement and blog post
• https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-yoga/issues/704
• https://www.graphql-yoga.com/