Defaulting route to /api/:version in MEANJS - express

Question

I am relatively new to MEANJS, i have also been reading through its documentation to learn more.
so, i am trying to create a rest API using meanjs using its yo generator and removing the angular parts of it, so far it has been a success.
What i am trying to do now is to default the url routes to have a prefix of /api/:version, what i did so far is to append the /api/:version to the routes inside app/ like the following
//app/routes/articles.server.routes.js
'use strict';
...
module.exports = function(app) {
// Article Routes
app.route('/api/:version/articles')
...
app.route('/api/:version/articles/:articleId')
...
// Finish by binding the article middleware
app.param('articleId', articles.articleByID);
};
That works so far, but can i declared this somewhere so that i don't have to add /api/:version every time i create a new route?
I tried implementing the ones stated in express documentation and Remi M's answer in this stackoverflow question with no luck.
Update
meanjs installation comes with an express.js, so i thought that this is the right place to do it and i tried using the router object to solve this problem, although it doesn't work
//config/express.js
'use strict';
...
var express = require('express');
...
var router = express.Router();
module.exports = function(db) {
var app = express();
...
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
res.locals.url = req.protocol + '://' + req.headers.host + req.url;
next();
});
app.use(compress({
filter: function(req, res) {
return (/json|text|javascript|css/).test(res.getHeader('Content-Type'));
},
level: 9
}));
...
config.getGlobbedFiles('./app/routes/**/*.js').forEach(function(routePath) {
require(path.resolve(routePath))(app);
});
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
if (!err) return next();
console.error(err.stack);
res.status(500).render('500', {
error: err.stack
});
});
app.use(function(req, res) {
res.status(404).render('404', {
url: req.originalUrl,
error: 'Not Found'
});
});
...
app.use('/api/:version', router); //this is what i add
return app;
};

Answer 1

All of your initial configurations should be on router object and not on app For Ex :
'use strict';
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
module.exports = function(db) {
var app = express();
router.use(function(req, res, next) {
res.locals.url = req.protocol + '://' + req.headers.host + req.url;
next();
});
router.use(compress({
filter: function(req, res) {
return (/json|text|javascript|css/).test(res.getHeader('Content-Type'));
},
level: 9
}));
config.getGlobbedFiles('./app/routes/**/*.js').forEach(function(routePath) {
require(path.resolve(routePath))(router);
});
router.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
if (!err) return next();
console.error(err.stack);
res.status(500).render('500', {
error: err.stack
});
});
router.use('/bar', function(req, res, next) {
console.log("bar endpoint called");
res.send("bar");
});
router.use(function(req, res) {
res.status(404).render('404', {
url: req.originalUrl,
error: 'Not Found'
});
});
app.use('/api/:version/', router); //this is what i add
return app;
};
Then call app.use("prefixurl",router) as above.
test the BAR API /api/v1/bar