I have a full-stack application that I’m using Express static to serve the client. The issue I’m experiencing is that my server.js file is running the server on 5000, however my client views are ran on 5173. When I run the following, I will see the log on 5000, but not on 5173. Should I be seeing it on 5173? I’m not sure I’m understanding the docs to be able to run Middleware before my client.

Example:

const myMw = (eq, res, next) => {
  console.log('MIDDLEWARE RAN');
  next();
};

app.use(myMW).use("/test", express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'client')));

app.listen(5000, () => {
  console.log(`listening on port: ${port}!`);
});

if I go to localhost:5000/test I see MIDDLEWARE RANin my terminal

if I go to localhost:5173/test I don’t receive anything in my terminal or my browser console. But it renders my application.

Am I misunderstanding what should be happening here? I want to validate that a user went to a specific URL server-side, ie: /login before rendering the application.