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Binary files are corrupted in dev mode #1636
Description
Binary files dynamically generated and downloaded from the api are corrupted, due to connect-livereload trying to inject code into the binary.
The issue is discussed here: intesso/connect-livereload#39
This can be fixed by configuring connect-livereload to ignore /api path in server/config/express.js:
if ('development' === env) {
app.use(require('connect-livereload')({
ignore: [/^\/api\/(.*)/,
/\.js(\?.*)?$/, /\.css(\?.*)?$/, /\.svg(\?.*)?$/, /\.ico(\?.*)?$/, /\.woff(\?.*)?$/,
/\.png(\?.*)?$/, /\.jpg(\?.*)?$/, /\.jpeg(\?.*)?$/, /\.gif(\?.*)?$/, /\.pdf(\?.*)?$/
]
}));
}To reproduce, simply download a binary from the api using res.download.
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Fix angular-fullstack#1636 Binary files are corrupted in dev mode
jchukwum commentedon Apr 16, 2016
@Toub,
This was quite helpful. Thank you so much.
John
fix(livereload): ignore api routes and specific non-html files