[GH-ISSUE #147] Possible to mount in an existing Express app? #102

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opened 2026-03-03 16:04:25 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-03 16:04:25 +03:00

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Originally created by @marclar on GitHub (Oct 29, 2018).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/issues/147

I was thinking of including this in my project but mounting it as middleware, e.g.

const app = express();
const frontail = require('frontail');

app.get('/', (req, res) => {res.send('Hello World!')});

app.use('/logs', frontail);

Can frontail be used in this way?

Originally created by @marclar on GitHub (Oct 29, 2018). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/issues/147 I was thinking of including this in my project but mounting it as middleware, e.g. ``` const app = express(); const frontail = require('frontail'); app.get('/', (req, res) => {res.send('Hello World!')}); app.use('/logs', frontail); ``` Can frontail be used in this way?

kerem closed this issue

2026-03-03 16:04:26 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-03-03 16:04:26 +03:00

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@mthenw commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2018):

Hey, it's not possible with the current architecture. One option that could help could be just running express js server and piping output to frontail:

node server.js | frontail -

@mthenw commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2018): Hey, it's not possible with the current architecture. One option that could help could be just running express js server and piping output to frontail: `node server.js | frontail -`

kerem commented

2026-03-03 16:04:26 +03:00

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@marclar commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2018):

Thanks for the response, @mthenw. I was also thinking of starting frontail using child_process.execFile and then proxying requests from a route on my primary app to the frontail server/port.

@marclar commented on GitHub (Oct 29, 2018): Thanks for the response, @mthenw. I was also thinking of starting frontail using `child_process.execFile` and then proxying requests from a route on my primary app to the frontail server/port.

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2026-03-03 16:05:57 +03:00

[PR #102] [MERGED] Update README.md #196