How to make express.static middleware ignore get parameter?

Question

I have a mobile app that loads images via http. I'm using a GET parameter for cache busting. In QA and Production the images are served via S3 and this works fine. But in development I'm serving them directly from my node / express backend with express.static(). But here the get parameter makes static not find the file. Is there a way to tell express.static to ignore GET parameter? I digged around code but could find anything obvious. Ideas?

+++UPDATE+++

Code and usage example:

//serve assets on the dev server only
if ((process.env.NODE_ENV || 'DEVELOPMENT') == 'DEVELOPMENT') {
    app.use(express.static(path.resolve(__dirname,'..','public')));
}

This one works: localhost:3000/assets/avatars/example.png

This one doesn't: localhost:3000/assets/avatars/example.png?v=2

+++CLOSED++++

The mistake actually, as suggested below, had nothing to do with static routing. Sincere apologies for wasting your time.

Answer 1

Express is running all the route you define one after another, so if you do:

app.use('/',express.static('/'))
app.get('/myparamter',function(req,res,next){
    res.send('This Will never be called')

})

But if you do:

app.get('/myparamter',function(req,res,next){
    res.send('This Will be called if you request /myparmeter')
})

// If not another route matches the URL it will server default static file.
app.use('/',express.static('/'))