express.static overrides the route handler #9074
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I just spend some time debugging an inexplicable error where my route handler was not being called but the site continued working. Turns out, express.static will override a `/` route when the `index.html` file is found in the static root. No server example (this included until now) of serving a CRA app has made note of this. Setting `index: false` on the static middleware turns off this behaviour and returns control to the route handler.
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I just spend some time debugging an inexplicable error where my route handler was not being called but the site continued working. Turns out, express.static will override a
/route when theindex.htmlfile is found in the static root. No server example (this included until now) of serving a CRA app has made note of this. Settingindex: falseon the static middleware turns off this behaviour and returns control to the route handler.I ran into this using Express v4.17.1 and using no other Express middeware than express.static.