Using the express app

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Current behavior

The INestApplication provides an interface for .set() which calls the this.express.set() in the nest-application. But there’s no getter method for the item you’ve set. The get() method provided in the INestApplication is from the ApplicationContext already not from express instance.

Expected behavior

Expected is to get the value set from the .set method which is from the express. Also, is it possible to get the express instance created? As I can see from the source, it is not providing any methods to retrieve the created express instance. Why can’t we retrieve it?

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions

const nestApp = await NestFactory.create(AppModule); nestApp.set(‘port’, process.env.PORT || 3000); nestApp.get(‘port’) // returns null

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

An ability or flexibility for the developers to have an instance of express. With that, we can do things like the one above or another one is to send html file on startup.

Environment

Nest version: X.Y.Z

 4.6.6
For Tooling issues:
- Node version: 8.10.0
- Platform:  Windows

Others:

[ricardosaracino]

Question i was able to do this previously… is there a recommended way to do this now?

app.set('trust proxy', 1);

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