question about staticDirs

[frissdiegurke]

hey, how exactly is the staticDirs within plugin.json implemented?

Is it somehow possible to add a directory and dynamically add its files later, but as soon as they're available they should be accessible...

[julian]

That should be how it works right now. The staticDirs property maps an alias (the object key) to the actual system path.

For example:

staticDirs: {
    "foo": "bar"
}

... will map the route 127.0.0.1:4567/plugins/nodebb-theme-myplugin/foo to /path/to/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-theme-myplugin/bar

I believe I used express.static to route the directory, so any files added in after NodeBB has started should still be routed, since the parent directory was the one that was mounted.