Does express serve static files from hidden (dot) folder

Question

My app is serving a static folder like this

app.use('/static', serveStatic(__dirname + '/view/my/static/folder'));

How to configure server to serve a hidden folder? So if i have

/view/my/static/folder/.hidden/some-text.txt

I would like to see this on

localhost:8080/static/.hidden/some-text.txt

Keith Keith · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13T04:02:17

I found this question from googling after I couldn't serve hidden files. I discovered that express doesn't serve them by default.

You can serve them with the dotfiles option:

app.use(express.static( __dirname+'/static', {dotfiles:'allow'} ));