Express * no longer works (v5.0.0-beta.3)

[zmatez]

After npm updated Express to the latest version, * in requests stopped working:

        this.expressApp.get('/*', (req, res, next) => {
            console.log(req.url)
            if (req.url.startsWith("/api")) {
                next();
                return
            }
            res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'build', 'index.html'));
        });

console.log was never logged, and I was just getting 'Cannot GET /'
or another example,

        this.expressApp.get('*',(req,res) => console.log("GET* " + req.url))
        this.expressApp.get('/',(req,res) => console.log("GET/ " + req.url))
        this.expressApp.get('',(req,res) => console.log("GET " + req.url))

only on https://url.com/ logs out GET/, else says Cannot GET ...

After downgrading to 4.19.2 it all started working, and in above example it started logging GET* on any url. Before it was Cannot GET ...

[krzysdz]

If by latest version you mean 5.0 beta, then that's intentional. The router dependency has been upgraded to 2.0.0-beta.1 and the changelog says:

Special * path segment behavior removed. /foo/*/bar will match a literal * as the middle segment.

You can find more details here:

• https://expressjs.com/en/guide/migrating-5.html#path-syntax
• https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/5.0/History.md#500-beta1--2022-02-14
• https://github.com/pillarjs/router/blob/2.0/HISTORY.md#200-beta1--2020-03-29

4.19.2 is the latest non-beta version and is the one tagged as latest on npm. 5.0.0-beta.3 is the next version

[wesleytodd]

We strongly recommend not using the beta versions. They are unstable. That said, we will be releasing the main v5 release soon and will completely be getting rid of this style of route. We are working on the release prep and docs and stuff, but you can see what we will be upgrading to with path-to-regexp@8 here https://github.com/pillarjs/path-to-regexp and pillarjs/router#117