Wildcards don't work anymore in v5

Hi, I’m using express to serve an Angular app. This has a few files which need to be served statically (index.html, some css, js and images) and then has its own routing which means that all other URLs need to serve the index.html.

In Express 4 I was able to do this:

app.use("/", express.static("/app/dist/frontend", {dotfiles: "allow"}));
app.use("*", express.static("/app/dist/frontend/index.html", {dotfiles: "allow"}));

However, in Express 5 it always returns 404 for /myCustomRoute… Here are the logs (debug=*):

  body-parser:json skip empty body +13s
  send stat "A:\app\dist\frontend\myCustomRoute" +13s
  finalhandler default 404 +2ms

It doesn’t help to set fallthrough: true…

I’d really like to contribute a fix if you can point me in the right direction. We really need Express 5 because of its improved error handling with promises.

[hrueger]

I think that’s the same problem as you had in the first post, but now in the router?

🤦‍♂️Of course, sorry for that.

router.use((req, res) => res.sendStatus(404).end());

works.

Thanks for your efforts!

[LinusU]

#4833 is also vaguely related. I realise that you could also do .use('/', ...) which should be the same as * used to be