connect-s3

Connect middleware for serving static content from Amazon S3.

Installation

Run npm install connect-s3 --save to install the module locally and add an entry to your project's package.json file.

Use

To use with Amazon S3, set your bucket up as a website in the AWS Console. You should see the URL to use for website functionality, which will include your bucket name and region.

var connect = require('connect');
var s3 = require('connect-s3');
 
var app = connect()
.use(s3({
  pathPrefix: '/web',
  remotePrefix: 'http://some-bucket.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/somepath'
}))
.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000);

Test

Install dependencies and dev dependencies with npm install. The Makefile also uses Foreman to run Mocha with environment variables set. To run the tests, create a file called test.env specifying the ports to use for the test servers. For example, you might have the following.

PROXY_PORT=3100
SERVER_PORT=3101

Then run make.

Why?

I've run across Connect middleware for serving local static content, which sounds pretty handy. But if you deploy your app to Heroku, then local static content is not a great idea. Now you can host your static content on S3 and either use Heroku as a simple web server (handy but hacky) or integate the static content with other server-side functionality (avoiding potential cross-origin issues of a separately-hosted site).