Add static option

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,7 +4,18 @@
 
 ### Changed
 
-* Automatically ignore unknown query parameters
+* `jsonServer.defaults` is now a function and can take an object.
+If you're using the project as a module, you need to update your code:
+
+```js
+// Before
+jsonServer.defaults
+// After
+jsonServer.defaults()
+jsonServer.defaults({ static: '/some/path'})
+```
+
+* Automatically ignore unknown query parameters.
 
 ```bash
 # Before
@@ -13,6 +24,14 @@ GET /posts?author=typicode&foo=bar # []
 GET /posts?author=typicode&foo=bar # [{...}, {...}]
 ```
 
+### Added
+
+* CLI option for setting a custom static files directory.
+
+```bash
+json-server --static some/path
+```
+
 ## [0.7.28][2015-09-09]
 
 ```bash

README.md

@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ GET /
 
 ### Static file server
 
-You can use JSON Server to serve your HTML, JS and CSS, simply create a `./public` directory.
+You can use JSON Server to serve your HTML, JS and CSS, simply create a `./public` directory
+or use `--static`.
 
 ```bash
 mkdir public
@@ -162,6 +163,10 @@ echo 'hello word' > public/index.html
 json-server db.json
 ```
 
+```bash
+json-server db.json --static ./static
+```
+
 ### Access from anywhere
 
 You can access your fake API from anywhere using CORS and JSONP.
@@ -233,7 +238,7 @@ var jsonServer = require('json-server')
 var server = jsonServer.create()
 
 // Set default middlewares (logger, static, cors and no-cache)
-server.use(jsonServer.defaults)
+server.use(jsonServer.defaults())
 
 // Returns an Express router
 var router = jsonServer.router('db.json')

src/cli/index.js

@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ module.exports = function () {
         alias: 'r',
         description: 'Load routes file'
       },
+      static: {
+        alias: 's',
+        description: 'Set static files directory'
+      },
       delay: {
         alias: 'd',
         description: 'Add delay to responses (ms)'

src/cli/run.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 var fs = require('fs')
+var path = require('path')
 var chalk = require('chalk')
 var is = require('./utils/is')
 var load = require('./utils/load')
@@ -40,7 +41,16 @@ function createApp (source, object, routes, argv) {
     object
   )
 
-  app.use(jsonServer.defaults)
+  var defaults
+  if (argv.static) {
+    defaults = jsonServer.defaults({
+      static: path.join(process.cwd(), argv.static)
+    })
+  } else {
+    defaults = jsonServer.defaults()
+  }
+
+  app.use(defaults)
 
   if (routes) {
     var rewriter = jsonServer.rewriter(routes)

src/server/defaults.js

@@ -1,41 +1,48 @@
 var fs = require('fs')
+var path = require('path')
 var express = require('express')
 var logger = require('morgan')
 var cors = require('cors')
 var errorhandler = require('errorhandler')
 
-var arr = []
+module.exports = function (opts) {
+  var userDir = path.join(process.cwd(), 'public')
+  var defaultDir = path.join(__dirname, 'public')
+  var staticDir = fs.existsSync(userDir) ?
+    userDir :
+    defaultDir
 
-// Logger
-arr.push(logger('dev', {
+  opts = opts || { static: staticDir }
+
+  var arr = []
+
+  // Logger
+  arr.push(logger('dev', {
     skip: function (req, res) {
       return process.env.NODE_ENV === 'test' ||
         req.path === '/favicon.ico'
     }
-}))
+  }))
 
-// Enable CORS for all the requests, including static files
-arr.push(cors({ origin: true, credentials: true }))
+  // Enable CORS for all the requests, including static files
+  arr.push(cors({ origin: true, credentials: true }))
 
-if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
+  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
     // only use in development
     arr.push(errorhandler())
-}
+  }
 
-// Serve static files
-if (fs.existsSync(process.cwd() + '/public')) {
-  arr.push(express.static(process.cwd() + '/public'))
-} else {
-  arr.push(express.static(__dirname + '/public'))
-}
+  // Serve static files
+  arr.push(express.static(opts.static))
 
-// No cache for IE
-// https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/234067
-arr.push(function (req, res, next) {
+  // No cache for IE
+  // https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/234067
+  arr.push(function (req, res, next) {
     res.header('Cache-Control', 'no-cache')
     res.header('Pragma', 'no-cache')
     res.header('Expires', '-1')
     next()
-})
+  })
 
-module.exports = arr
+  return arr
+}

test/cli/fixtures/public/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Hello

test/cli/index.js

@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ describe('cli', function () {
   describe('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/db', function () {
 
     beforeEach(function (done) {
-      this.timeout(10000)
       child = cli(['http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/db'])
-      setTimeout(done, 9000)
+      this.timeout(10000)
+      serverReady(PORT, done)
     })
 
     it('should support URL file', function (done) {
@@ -111,6 +111,19 @@ describe('cli', function () {
 
   })
 
+  describe('db.json -s fixtures/public', function () {
+
+    beforeEach(function (done) {
+      child = cli([dbFile, '-s', 'fixtures/public'])
+      serverReady(PORT, done)
+    })
+
+    it('should serve fixtures/public', function (done) {
+      request.get('/').expect(/Hello/, done)
+    })
+
+  })
+
   // FIXME test fails on OS X and maybe on Windows
   // But manually updating db.json works...
   if (os.platform() === 'linux') {

test/server/plural.js

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ describe('Server', function () {
 
     server = jsonServer.create()
     router = jsonServer.router(db)
-    server.use(jsonServer.defaults)
+    server.use(jsonServer.defaults())
     server.use(jsonServer.rewriter({
       '/api/': '/',
       '/blog/posts/:id/show': '/posts/:id'

test/server/singular.js

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ describe('Server', function () {
 
     server = jsonServer.create()
     router = jsonServer.router(db)
+    server.use(jsonServer.defaults())
     server.use(router)
   })