I noticed that when I have a route and a sub directory of the same name Express / Nodejs will change the URL when visiting that page in the browser.

For example, if I have a route named foo and then I create a directory in my project named foo the URL changes from, localhost/foo to localhost/foo/.

It is difficult to simply change the directory name or the route.

Is there a way to prevent express from adding the backslash?

Note: when it adds the backslash I’m still able to serve the HTML page but all the references in the page, the CSS, the Javascript, the images, etc all have foo prepended to their path. I can set a base path to fix this but I’d rather fix it on the server side.