Proper way to remove middleware from the Express stack?

Question

Is there a canonical way to remove middleware added with app.use from the stack? It seems that it should be possible to just modify the app.stack array directl

Answer 1

You can use the express-dynamic-middleware to make this.

https://github.com/lanbomo/express-dynamic-middleware

Use it like this

const express = require('express');

// import express-dynamic-middleware
const dynamicMiddleware = require('express-dynamic-middleware');


// create auth middleware
const auth = function(req, res, next) {
    if (req.get('Authorization') === 'Basic') {
        next();
    } else {
        res.status(401).end('Unauthorization');
    }
};

// create dynamic middleware
const dynamic = dynamicMiddleware.create(auth);

// create express app
const app = express();

// use the dynamic middleware
app.use(dynamic.handle());

// unuse auth middleware
dynamic.unuse(auth);