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| 2 | Middleware
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| 3 | ==========
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| 5 | Shunter uses [Connect](https://github.com/senchalabs/connect) under the hood and exposes Connect's `use` method to allow you to add your own middleware to the stack. The middleware that you specify gets mounted before Shunter's proxying behaviour so you're able to hijack certain routes.
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| 7 | Shunter middleware works in the same way as Connect:
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| 9 | ```js
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| 10 | var app = shunter({});
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| 12 | // Mount middleware on all routes
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| 13 | app.use(function(request, response, next) {
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| 14 | // ...
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| 15 | });
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| 17 | // Mount middleware on the /foo route
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| 18 | app.use('/foo', function(request, response, next) {
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| 19 | // ...
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| 20 | });
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| 22 | app.start();
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| 23 | ```
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| 25 | This allows you to expose information about Shunter's environment, or add in routes that you don't wish to hit one of the back end applications that your application proxies to.
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