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Make express ignore certain URL changes

I try to make a Single Page App on Express. The main problem is that I use Express route feature, that re-renders the view each time the URL changes and GET request gets to server. I have a rather usual code like:
// Express routes
var routes = {
index: require('./routes/home')
};
// use routes
app.use('/', routes.index);
//home.js
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
res.render('home', {title: "ITEF"});
});
router.get('/about', function (req, res, next) {
res.render('home', {title: "ITEF"});
});
Is there any way to make router ignore URL changes and let the front-side app be as it is? The plan is to buld all UX logic according to URLs, but without countless re-rendering.

Found out that it's rather easy with pushState HTML5 feature:
window.history.pushState('object or string', 'Title', '/about');
Details described in a good article here.

I little bit late for answering, but I managed to do what you asked using a library called Finch.js.
So, when I want to call another URL in my Single Page Application, I use Finch.navigate('/profile'). The URL will change, and there will be no call to the node server.
Finch.route("/profile", function () {
main.viewModel(new app.model());
});
Finch.listen();
Finch.navigate('/profile');
You can learn more about the library here FINCH

Handling routes with Angular and Express

I have an app where I am trying to remove the hashbang ( ! and #) prefixes for my routes, but still have people be able to use bookmarked routes. For the most part I have been able to get it work with html5Mode set to true, but there are a few cases where it is not working. Here is how I have my server configured:
var router = require('./router')(app);
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../client')));
app.get('*', function (req, res, next) {
res.sendFile('index.html', {root:'../client/app/'});
});
router in this case looks like this:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var Products = require('../../database').Products;
router.get('/:flavor', function (req, res) {
var flavor = req.params.flavor;
Products.findOne({flavor:flavor}, function (err, product) {
if (err) {
throw err
}
res.json(product);
});
Getting the flavor routes, is one case where this setup does not work. If someone directly types into the browse, mysite.com/lemon they receive the JSON data back, only (no template or anything). Normally this is used by the angular app, (which would typically make the request to /lemon and implement it into the template). However, if I move the router below the app.get('*'), then any request made by Angular for the data is returned with the entire index.html page. How can I make it so that a direct request by the browser for a route that normally returns JSON sends the index file?

express-subdomain not redirecting subdomain.localhost get request

I am using an express.js package called express-subdomain to facilitate requests to defined subdomains I set up.
As far as I understand, the subdomain constructor function expects an express router object which I pass to it from an exported router module.
What I have tried is as follows:
MAIN APP.JS SERVER FILE
var common = {
express: require('express'),
subdomain: require('express-subdomain')
};
common.app = common.express();
module.exports = common;
common.app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log(('app listening on http://localhost:3000'));
});
var router = require('./router/index');
// Error Handling
common.app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
});
router/index
module.exports = function (){
var common = require('../app');
var router = common.express.Router();
common.app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send('Homepage');
});
common.app.use('/signup', require('./routes/signup'));
common.app.use(common.subdomain('login', require('./routes/login')));
}();
routes/login
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.send('login working');
});
router.get('/info', function (req, res) {
});
module.exports = router;
I have tried to access the login subdomain at the following urls:
http://login.localhost
http://login.localhost:3000
http://login.localhost.com
http://login.localhost.com:3000
Any clarification or assistance appreciated.

author of express-subdomain here 👋
A couple of things:
Hosts must be setup correctly - I'd recommend something like so in your /etc/hosts file.
127.0.0.1 myapp.local
127.0.0.1 login.myapp.local
For more information on this see https://github.com/bmullan91/express-subdomain#developing-locally
Register the subdomain routes before any others, including the homepage route. The order is very important
The pattern you're using in /routes/index.js is not advised (requiring a self invoking function). Exporting the Router like you done in /routes/login.js is cleaner.
Finally, If you're still stuck take a look at the source for express subdomain and in particular its tests.
Happy coding.

Using Route of express node.js but express.Router getting as undefined

My code of router from default routes/index
/* GET home page. */
exports.index = function(req, res){
res.render('user', { title: 'Abcd' });
};
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.render('index', { title: 'Express' });
});
router.get('/helloworld', function(req, res) {
res.render('helloworld', { title: 'Hello, World!' })
});
module.exports = router;
getting error as can not call method get of undefined.I am new in node js please anyone help me.

Try upgrading to Express 4.x. You are probably running a 3.x flavor.

Router is a middleware of express which is registered implicitly with the express object the first time post() or get() is used. You can but don't have to add this explicitly calling use(), which allows you to register various middleware with express and so allows configuring processing and behavior in consideration of precedence.
Correct initialization and usage might look like this:
EDIT: Changed the example to be a "complete" http server.
app.js
var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');
// Requiring express exports a function that creates the application. Call it!
var app = express();
// Set port to listen to
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
// Set view engine
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
// Tell express to use the router middleware
// Can be omitted if precedence doesn't matter
// (e.g. for loading static resources)
app.use(app.router);
// Add callback handler for home (/) route
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.render('index', { title: 'Express' });
});
// Create http server by passing "app" to it:
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function() {
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});
Now, if you place a minimal view into the default folder for views...
views/index.jade
doctype 5
html
head
meta(charset='utf-8')
title #{title}
meta(name='viewport', content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0')
body
div
h1 Gotcha! Title is "#{title}"
... and start your server from the console with...
$ node app.js
...you should have your first node/express/jade powered app up and running!

rendering jade files in expressjs

I have a basic expressjs app (using jade), but I am having trouble rendering basic Jade files. When I get a request, i parse the url for the pathname and use the handle object to route the request as follows:
index.js
var requestHandlers = require('./requestHandlers');
var handle = {};
handle['/'] = requestHandlers.start;
handle['/download'] = requestHandlers.download
requestHandlers.js
function start(res) {
console.log("request handler for start called");
res.render('home', {title: 'express'});
}
function download(res) {
res.render('download', {title: 'download'})
res.end();
}
exports.start = start;
exports.download = download;
home.jade
h1= title
p Welcome to #{title}
I am using Jade as my templating engine, and have configured the server in a seperate server.js file. When i request either of the pages, the title displays correctly on my browser tab, but the page doesn't display, it just keeps loading. Weirdly, when I cancel the request the page displays. It's as if everything works but nothing tells the process to end?
I am relatively new to node so excuse my naiveté on any of the above. Let me know if there are any questions I can clear up.

I'm not 100% positive why your code isn't killing the TCP connection as needed to prevent your browser from timing out, but I can provide a solution that is friendly towards Express conventions that should solve your issues and maintain code readability, maintainability, and separation.
./app.js (your main server script)
var express = require('express'),
app = express.createServer(),
routes = require('./routes');
app.configure(function () {
// Render .jade files found in the ./views folder
// I believe you are already doing this
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
// Use the built-in Express router
// This kills the "handle" method you had implemented
app.use(app.router);
// Client-side assets will be served from a separate ./public folder
// i.e. http://yourhost.com/js/main.js will link to ./public/js/main.js
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
});
// Initialize routes
routes.init(app);
./routes/index.js
exports.init = function (app) {
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
console.log("request handler for start called");
// Render __dirname/views/home.jade
res.render('home', {title: 'express'});
});
app.get('/download', function (req, res) {
// Render __dirname/views/download.jade
res.render('download', {title: 'download'})
});
});
The above prevents you from needing to parse the URL parameters by yourself. Also you can define more readable and powerful request handlers (i.e. app.post for POST methods). You are now enabled to more easily tie in things like the Express-Resource module if you decide to build a REST API.
If you need more powerful mappings you can use regular expressions in the first parameter of app.[get/post/put/del] to filter for specific paths instead.