Trying to clone a repository & send it to the frontend with Node & Express

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    const express = require("express"); const app = express(); const port = 3000; const path = require("path"); const { execSync } = require("child_process"); // function to download the repo const downloadRepo = (repoURL) => execSync(`git clone ${repoURL}`, { stdio: [0, 1, 2], cwd: path.resolve(__dirname, ""), }); // route to clone the repo app.get("/:repoOwner/:repoName", async (req, res) => { const { repoOwner, repoName } = req.params; // composing the repo URL to be downloaded const fullRepoURL = `https://github.com/${repoOwner}/${repoName}.git`; // downloading the repo in the root folder await downloadRepo(fullRepoURL); // returns the FULL URL of the repo in the frontend res.send(fullRepoURL); // trying to return the repo's content in the the frontend // I get status 304 (not modified) res.sendFile(path.resolve(__dirname, repoName)); }); app.listen(port, () => { console.log(`App listening at http://localhost:${port}`); });

  • InfluxDB

    Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

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  • isomorphic-git

    A pure JavaScript implementation of git for node and browsers!

    I recently had to implement git cloning into a full stack project and I found a very useful library OP can use. isomorphic-git which would solve this issue and allow them to clone into a virtual filesystem which can help save speed, storage, and possibly keep it secure. Plus if the memfs package is used the OP can just dumb the JSON of the Volume object into the request.

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