增加REST-API中节点+ Express的时间

Question

I'm generating a huge .docx document in a rest-api call. It takes several minutes for it to complete. Problem is the server somehow sends a "timeout" after a minute or so. Is there anyway to increase this time? Is it a browser thing or can I change it in express?

exports.generateDoc = function(req, res){
  var file = generateDoc(); //This takes several minutes
  res.setHeader('Content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=output.docx');
  res.end(file,'binary');
}

Answer 1

You can set the timeout of an HTTP server in Node using the server.setTimeout() method which is described in the Node docs here .

There's also the Express middlewhere timeout which may help with Express.