This is the step needed to transform expressjs into a complete MVC framework, by adding Controller-support. No more hassling with code in your route. express-controllers automatically set up routing based on your controllers.
Julian Duniec http://github.com/julianduniec
$ npm install express-controller
var expressControllers = require('express-controller');
//Your express-app
var app = express();
//Tell expressControllers to use the controllers-directory, and use bind() to set up routing.
expressControllers
.setDirectory( __dirname + '/controllers')
.bind(app);The paths will be generated by a convention of naming controllers and functions.
A basic example: PeopleController.js
module.exports = {
/*
Will be translated to get("/people") (first level is generated by controller name)
*/
get_index : function(req, res) {
res.send("Hello visitor!");
},
/*
Will be translated to get("/people") (HTTP-method is extracted by first item in function name)
*/
post_index : function(req, res) {
res.send("A post");
},
/*
Will be translated to get("/people/finest") (subsections automatically appended)
*/
get_finest : function(req, res) {
res.send("A post");
},
/*
Will be translated to get("/people/:id") (parameters automatically extracted from function parameters)
*/
get_id : function(req, res, id) {
res.send("You are requesting the resource with id: " + id);
},
/*
Will be translated to get("/people/:id/friends") (if parameter is included in function-name, it will be be included in the same position)
*/
get_id_friends : function(req, res, id) {
res.send("You are requesting the friends of the person with id: " + id);
},
/*
Will be translated to get("/people/:userName/friend-requests") (non parameter parts that use camelCase will be separated by hyphens in the url)
*/
get_userName_friendRequests : function(req, res, userName) {
res.send("You are requesting the friend requests of the person with user name: " + userName);
}
}