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JavaScript Express Basics Serving Static Files in Express What Are Static Assets?

Alexander Perry
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Alexander Perry
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Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 11,395 Points

Does the static server send the static assets again after every request?

Does the static server send all of the static assets in repsonse to every request? Or does it know which ones the current route will need? Or is it neither of those? Thank you in advance for any help!

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Zimri Leijen
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I may be wrong, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but since no one replied yet, I'll try to answer this as well as I can.

As far as I know, you share a specific folder with the express static middleware. This will allow you to request any file within the folder, as long as you know the path. You will usually only request one file at a time, but a page can of course request multiple files to display or use.

I am not sure if the static files will be cached, but I think they do get cached by default.