Add 404 page about grunt-contrib-connect

[stevenvachon]

Here's what helped me: https://gist.github.com/ssafejava/8704372

[iObject]

I would LOVE this!

[shama]

I think custom 404 handling should happen in your own middleware instead. Thanks for the suggestion though!

[Siyfion]

@shama Say you wanted to handle all 404s by returning the index.html page (which is quite often the case in a single page app), how would I go about doing this? Do I have access to the fs module?

I thought something like the below config might have worked, then I realised that it's only connect, not the full express framework.

      livereload: {
        options: {
          open: true,
          base: [
            '.tmp',
            '<%= yeoman.app %>'
          ],
          middleware: function(connect, options) {
            var middlewares = [];
            var directory = options.directory || options.base[options.base.length - 1];
            if (!Array.isArray(options.base)) {
              options.base = [options.base];
            }
            options.base.forEach(function(base) {
              // Serve static files.
              middlewares.push(connect.static(base));
            });
            // Make directory browse-able.
            middlewares.push(connect.directory(directory));
            // Handle 404
            middlewares.push(function(req, res, next) {
              res.sendfile(options.base[1] + '/index.html');
            });
            return middlewares;
          }
        }
      },

[shama]

@Siyfion You could build your own if you need something simple:

middleware: function(connect, options) {
  return [function(req, res) {
    var filename = '.' + req.url;
    if (!grunt.file.exists(filename)) filename = './404.html';
    res.end(grunt.file.read(filename));
  }];
},

But by that point it would probably be easier to use one of the many file serving libraries intended for serving files in a more production like environment (express, st, estatic, etc) or something like https://npmjs.org/package/grunt-express

[szalishchuk]

I had the same issue myself, after couple of hours of research, here is the solution I've ended up with.