Serving resources from `node_modules` dir

Question

I want to serve files from node_modules directory in project root.

so for example I added to my page this:

[:link {:href "/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css" :rel "stylesheet" :type "text/css"}]

now I need to tell compojure to serve statically anything that's in node_modules directory, and I can't find a way.

It works if I move node_modules to resources/public dir, but I don't want that. I need to find a way to serve files from anywhere in the project directory (in this case from ./node_modules )

I tried adding :resource-paths ["node_modules"] to profiles.clj ,

I tried (compojure.route/resources "node_modules" {:root "../.." }) , that still didn't work.

Answer 1

This is what I did:

added :resource-paths ["node_modules"] to project.clj - take a look at leiningen's sample

and then (compojure.route/resources "/" {:root "" }) . Seems it worked.

upd : this apparently exposed things that should not be exposed. eg it's possible now to download project.clj by navigating to it in the browser. not good.

upd 2 : (compojure.route/files "/" {:root "node_modules" }) this time it's right.

Answer 2

Symlink the file(s) or use @import in something in your static files to include your font-awesome css. I haven't tried this but you might also either create a project_root/special_css folder and add it to the css-dirs in project.clj or try adding the special file itself to the vector (not sure if that would work).