Feature Request: sendFile without serving anything

[ilyaigpetrov]

On my site each user has subdomain:

ilya.mysite.com/his/file
homer.mysite.com/index.html

I can't just tell serve this folder, I first retrieve username (homer), then serve his folder (users/homer). Ideally I would like to use reply.sendFile(path), but couldn't do it without specifying root folder (and serving file I don't want to server). Would be nice to have reply.sendFile separately from everything else.

Thanks!

[allevo]

Hi!
Thank you for this suggestion.

Truly this plugin was born to serve static files in development mode: nodejs is not so good on serving static files. Use a reverse proxy like nginx or haproxy.

Anyway we can split this plugin in order to add sendFile method. But I'd like to wait fastify/fastify#466

[jsardev]

This would be awesome! 👍

[mcollina]

Would you like to send a PR?

Basically you should add an option that makes https://github.com/fastify/fastify-static/blob/master/index.js#L94-L96 optional.

[jsardev]

@mcollina Here you are 😄