Load Routes

@jpbberry/load-routes is a package dedicated to easily, powerfully, and simply dynamically loading routes over folders and sub-folders. Routes are decides by the folders they're in, and the name of the files.

(This also has support for typescript, just replace all module.exports = ... with exports default ...)

Installation

Install via npm i @jpbberry/load-routes

How to

The package exports LoadRoutes with the paramaters LoadRoutes(app, directory, bind?)

Paramaters

The express app or router to load the directory into

directory

A full path directory to load all routes in

bind

An optional variable to bind all the routers function by, making it this

How to load a folder

index.js

const { LoadRoutes } = require('@jpbberry/load-routes')

const Path = require('path')
const Express = require('express')

const app = Express()

LoadRoutes(app, Path.resolve(__dirname, './routes'))

app.listen(3000)

And in your /routes folder, put your routes!

routes/foo.js

module.exports = function (r) {
  r.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.json({
      bar: true
    })
  })

  r.get('/not', (req, res) => {
    res.json({
      bar: false
    })
  })
}

When loaded, this will now make ip:3000/foo and /foo/not with these GETs!

Middlewares and indexes

Sometimes your middlewares and base / files can get pretty big, so you can add an index.js which will let you listen to the inside of the sub-folder, for example:

routes/hello/index.js

module.exports = function (r) {
  r.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.json({
      hello: 'world'
    })
  })
}

And then you can have your non-cluttered routes in side of the hello folder routes/hello/test.js

module.exports = function (r) {
  r.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.json({
      test: true
    })
  })
}

And this will now listen on ip:3000/hello and /hello/test

Binding routers

You can pass an object which will be the same everywhere to the third paramater bind. This is extremely useful in a client centered program. It will define the this in every router. For example

index.js

const Client = {
  foo: 'bar'
}

LoadRoutes(app, dir, Client)

Now Client will be available as this

Also note that () => {} cannot access this, you must use function () to get it routes/foo.js

module.exports = function (r) {
  r.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.json({
      foo: this.foo // "bar"
    })
  })
}

jpbberry/load-routes