Add option to remove trailing slashes, as opposed to adding them

Hello!

We’re serving a website through Gatsby, which is having some trouble removing trailing slashes when serving an index.html file.

As you can see from the PR and discussion, it seems to be impossible through configuration options to remove the trailing slash, even if it’s possible to stop from redirecting to a trailing slash.

Would you be interested in a PR which adds (or changes) an option to remove trailing slashes when serving index files?

Thank you very much 😃

[dougwilson]

The problem with links is mostly benign, I think. I haven’t seen a relative link in the wild in years. Either way, if you’re setting an option to remove trailing slashes you should understand the consequences.

You’d be surprised 😃 I am constantly helping new web programmers with little to no understanding of any of this, and would expect it to look the same way as when they double-click on the file on their file system.

I don’t think having the option you propose would be valid for this project now that I better understand it, I’m sorry. You’re welcome to use a different project or similar if that is really what you want to do without having a file system layout that matches the files served. But in reality, files should never be served up by Node.js unless as a last resort, so you should be using Apache/NGINX/etc. I’m not sure if they have those options you’re looking for, either, but if they do, that would probably be the best overall solution.

[dougwilson]

Hi @formulahunter this is a general Node.js question I would suggest asking on Node.js itself to get the full answer. The short answer is that serving files will consume your worker pool (https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/dont-block-the-event-loop/).