Route66 is a router middleware inspired by Rails for Koa and Express (and any other app or framework).
It is designed to suit medium and big Node.js apps, with ability to customize the way requests are dispatched.
Route66 provides a great API for readable and comfortable definitions of routes.
Route66 can adapt to every project structure out there by letting you decide how request should be handled.
To better understand the idea behind this project, check out this example:
var Router = require('route66');
var express = require('express');
var router = new Router();
var app = express();
router.setup(function () {
this.get('/posts/create', 'posts#create');
});
router.dispatch(function (route, req, res) {
var controllerName = route.controller; // "posts"
var methodName = route.method; // "create"
// require PostsController and execute "create" method
PostsController.create(req, res);
});
app.use(router.express());- Flexible (allows you to handle the request the way you want)
- Lightweight (189 sloc, commented and understandable code)
- Convenient API for defining routes
- Compatible with Koa and Express (and any other custom framework or app)
- Extensive tests
- Support for route parameters
Very soon:
- Support regular expressions
Install via npm:
$ npm install route66 --save
Website with a full documentation will be created soon.
var Router = require('route66');
var router = new Router();
router.setup(function () {
this.root('home#index');
this.get('/welcome', 'home#welcome');
this.post('/contact', 'contact#send');
this.resource('task');
this.resource('user', { except: ['destroy'] });
this.resource('post', function () {
this.resource('comment', { only: ['create'] });
});
this.namespace('api', function () {
this.resource('task');
});
});var Router = require('route66');
var express = require('express');
var router = new Router();
var app = express();
router.setup(function () {
this.namespace('api/v1', function () {
this.post('/posts', 'posts#create');
});
});
router.dispatch(function (route, req, res) {
/*
route = {
controller: 'posts',
method: 'create',
namespace: 'api/v1'
}
*/
});
app.use(router.express());var Router = require('route66');
var koa = require('koa');
var router = new Router();
var app = koa();
router.setup(function () {
this.namespace('api/v1', function () {
this.post('/posts', 'posts#create');
});
});
router.dispatch(function *(route, context) {
/*
route = {
controller: 'posts',
method: 'create',
namespace: 'api/v1'
}
*/
// this is also context
// this == context
});
app.use(router.koa());Use .resolve(method, url) to get a correct route for this request:
function handler (req, res) {
let { route, params } = router.resolve(req.method, req.url);
// custom handling
}
Note: You must have Node.js v0.11.x installed.
To run tests, execute this:
$ npm test
Route66 is released under the MIT license.
