app.mountpath

The app.mountpath property contains one or more path patterns on which a sub-app was mounted.

A sub-app is an instance of express that may be used for handling the request to a route.

var express = require('express');

var app = express(); // the main app
var admin = express(); // the sub app

admin.get('/', function (req, res) {
  console.log(admin.mountpath); // /admin
  res.send('Admin Homepage');
});

app.use('/admin', admin); // mount the sub app

It is similar to the baseUrl property of the req object, except req.baseUrl returns the matched URL path, instead of the matched patterns.

If a sub-app is mounted on multiple path patterns, app.mountpath returns the list of patterns it is mounted on, as shown in the following example.

var admin = express();

admin.get('/', function (req, res) {
  console.log(admin.mountpath); // [ '/adm*n', '/manager' ]
  res.send('Admin Homepage');
});

var secret = express();
secret.get('/', function (req, res) {
  console.log(secret.mountpath); // /secr*t
  res.send('Admin Secret');
});

admin.use('/secr*t', secret); // load the 'secret' router on '/secr*t', on the 'admin' sub app
app.use(['/adm*n', '/manager'], admin); // load the 'admin' router on '/adm*n' and '/manager', on the parent app

Links:

http://expressjs.com/en/4x/api.html#app.mountpath

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2016-05-02 16:34:29

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