Wednesday, May 20, 2015

NancyFX Notes: Static Content

NancyFX Notes

This is part of a set of articles that are my developer notes for working with Nancy. Taken from the Nancy introduction, "Nancy is a lightweight, low-ceremony, framework for building HTTP based services on .Net and Mono." It's (she's?) great for building microservices and other things.

Static Content

Static content are files like images, JavaScript files, css files, etc. Nancy automatically supports static files which are placed in the Content directory. The example on GitHub has custom directories for the 3rd-party scripts and the application-specific scripts. These are Scripts and App directories.



Other directories can be included by adding to NancyConventions.StaticContentConventions property. Do this by overriding the ConfigureConventions method in your bootstrapper.



The shot from Fiddler below shows a before and after. The calls from 5-8 were made before the additions to the bootstrapper. The later calls show that the changes enabled Nancy hosting the files in those directories.