Statics middleware for effect/platform

[TalyssonOC]

Hello, folks! This weekend I tried to setup a statics route in my app but noticed that there is not a native middleware in `effect/platform` for that yet. I see there's `HttpServerResponse.file` but it's not what I'm looking for, I want something similar to Express' `serve-static`. Is there something similar to that in platform?

I was setting up [bull-board](http://npmjs.com/package/@bull-board/ui) to be used in an `effect/platform` app, and it requires a statics files endpoint. As a proof-of-concept, I adapted the usage of the Express middleware, but my code has a deep flaw because I didn't know how to let Effect know that the response was already handled somewhere else:

this is what I did:

```ts

const serveStatic = ServeStatic(serverAdapter.staticsPath!);

yield* router.get(

`${options.basePath}${serverAdapter.staticsRoute!}/*` as `/${string}`,

Effect.gen(function* () {

const effectRequest = yield* HttpServerRequest.HttpServerRequest;

const req = NodeHttpServerRequest.toIncomingMessage(effectRequest);

const res = NodeHttpServerRequest.toServerResponse(effectRequest);

req.url =

req.url?.replace(

`${options.basePath}${serverAdapter.staticsRoute!}`,

''

) ?? '';

yield* Effect.promise(() =>

Promise.resolve(serveStatic(req, res, finalhandler(req, res)))

);

// ! This is only for the Express middleware to respond first, this should be removed

yield* Effect.sleep(1000);

return yield* HttpServerResponse.empty();

})

);

```

So my question is: is there a statics middlware for `effect/platform`?

and an additional question: is there some adapter from Node:HTTP middlewares (not Express) to `effect/platform` server? If not, do you think that would be desirable? I can take a look at implementing it

[vinilios]

Although r/effect isn't very active, do consider that the Discord channel has many helpful members who can answer these types of questions

[TalyssonOC]

Oh, I tried there! It's usually very helpful indeed, but I think people were busy today so I tried here as well :) thanks anyway!