Sharing Node App and Connect's port

Question

Sharing Node App and Connect's port

Is there any way to get Connect to run on the same port as your node app so you can serve up assets using relative or absolute paths?

Right now I have them running on separate ports, which is a pain:

var app     = require('http').createServer(handler).listen(81), 
    connect = require('connect');

connect.createServer(
    connect.static(__dirname + '/assets')
).listen(82);

node.js

Answer 1

Let connect create the server for you:

var connect=require('connect'),
  app=connect.createServer(handler,
    connect.static(__dirname+"/assets"))
    .listen(81);

Only other difference is that handler now takes a third parameter, next, which is a function that handler should call if it doesn't want to handle the request itself but rather wants to pass it on to the static handler (or anything else implemented via connect).