Secondary routes (nested routers) in Express

First, a little background and context :

I am developing an application with nodejs + express .

I am new to this technology, and the application will be of some complexity. So I'm doing it for modules , each on a specific route.

EDITO

After a little more trasteo , I'm 100% that the bug is in how I use the routes; edito, to shorten it a bit and make it more concrete.

For an AJAX request to this URL

  

POST http://localhost:8080/auth/allowed

I have the following code (it's an extract, the real one is bigger, only what I think is relevant):

// main.js

const AuthModule = require( './auth' );

app.post( '/auth/*', AuthModule );

// Archivos estáticos. Sin autorización.
app.get( '*', EX.static( join( __dirname, 'static' ), {
  dotfiles: 'ignore',
  index: 'false',
  redirect: false
} ) );

app.listen( 8080 );

Where all the modules load correctly.

  

AuthModule

Located in the subdirectory auth , with 2 files:

// index.js

'use strict';

const EX = require( 'express' );

const AllowedModule = require( './allowed' );

const Router = EX.Router( );

Router.use( function( req, res, next ) { require( 'console' ).log( 'Módulo AUTH' ); next( ); } );

Router.post( '/allowed', AllowedModule );

module.exports = Router;

and

// allowed.js

'use strict';

function Allowed( req, res ) {
  res.json( {
    lastupdate: currTime,
    users: [
      [ 'Usuario número 1', 1 ],
      [ 'Usuario número 2', 2 ],
    ]
  } );

  res.end( );
}

module.exports = Allowed;

Now, what happens: when I make a request for the file /login.html , it performs an AJAX POST /auth/allowed .

I have established dump points to console, which shows that I enter the file auth/index.js . From that file, you should call the middleware auth/allowed.js . However, in the browser I get a nice code 404 .

I understand that, for some reason, from the file auth/index.js is not called to my middleware auth/allowed.js ; instead, we continue with the primary route table (the one I set in main.js ). The call is treated as a request for a static file, which static tries to reply.

What I would expect is that auth/index.js would be called allowed , but that does not happen .

In the main.js , I set the correct path as POST.

Within auth/index.js , I also use a POST.

The route I hope to follow is

• POST /auth - > auth/index.js
• POST /auth/allowed - > auth/allowed.js .

Well, I think that's it.