Ruter.js

Ruter is a routing extension for Express which is designed to be extensible. Warning: this package is not stable yet.

Installation

$ npm install ruter

Usage

The main purpose of Ruter is to be able to configure routes through a loader (object, yml file, etc). The loader must return an object containing route name which at least contains pattern and 1 controller.

ruter = require('ruter');
app = require('express').createServer();

routes = {
    homepage: {
        pattern: '/',
        controller: function(req, res, next) {
            //do something
        }
    },
    post_product: {
        pattern: '/product',
        controller: function(req, res, next) {
            //do something
        },
        method: 'post'
    }
};

loader = new ruter.ObjectLoader
routes = loader.load(routes);

ruter.init(routes);
ruter.setup(app);

Url generator

The url can be generated based on the route name.

ruter = require('ruter');
routes = {
    homepage: {
        pattern: '/',
        controller: function(req, res, next) {
            // do something
        }
    }
};

ruter.init(routes);
console.log ruter.generateUrl('homepage'); /** outputs '/' */

Plugin

Ruter can be extended with plugin. Register the configuration's key and you can process the route however you want.

Plugin = (function() {
    function Plugin() {}

    Plugin.supports = function(key) {
      if (key === 'plugin') {
        return true;
      }
    };

    Plugin.load = function(routeName, route, routes) {
      routes[routeName + '_plugin'] = route;
    };

    return Plugin;
})();

routes = {
    index: {
        pattern: '/',
        plugin: true
    }
}

loader = new ruter.ObjectLoader([Plugin]);
routes = loader.load(routes); /* now routes will have a route with name 'index_plugin' */

License

(The MIT License)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.