Can I access the express handler of acebase-server and/or pass a custom express server to it?

[trenta3]

I'm sorry for the amount of questions that I am asking in these days, but I am evaluating the usage of acebase for a project of mine and I would like to understand better what are the tradeoffs involved and the easyness of doing various operations.

I would like to use SvelteKit to generate the webapp, and serve acebase on the same server serving webpages (it is for a small project and I would like it to be as self-contained as it can get). To do this using SK hooks requires to have an handler from acebase-server to call, but as I can see in acebase-server sources, the express application is not stores as an accessible property of the server class.

Would it be possible for it to be made visible?

Edit: I am aware that I can extend the server application with custom routes, but those end up under /ext/ and thus it may not be possible to serve pages the way SvelteKit does.

[appy-one]

Sure, I'll take a look at this tomorrow

[appy-one]

Done, the Express app is now exposed through the app property on the server instance. See this commit

Example usage:

server.app.get('/hello', (req, res) => {
    res.send('Hi!');
});

[trenta3]

Thanks! I wil try it in the next days

[trenta3]

It works very well. It would be even more cool if one could create the AceBaseServer separately from starting it, so that I could expose multiple AceBase databases on the same express app (if I understood correctly the routes depend on the dbname).
I see in acebase-server/src/server.ts that the constructor method directly calls the init method, which sets up middlewares and also starts the server. Separating the latter in its own start method would allow such scenarios.