express-path-router

Description

This module allows to mount an express API based on a file architecture and facilitate the middleware reuse.

Installation

yarn add express-path-router

Usage

Following the classic express routing way, a huge service may end with a really fastidious bunch of code (even when splitted in multiple files). This module allows to avoid this by loading the routing from file architecture.

Example:

API target:

app.get('cities/:cityId', [... middlewares ...], callback);
app.post('companies', [... middlewares ...], callback);
app.get('companies/:companyId', [... middlewares ...], callback);
 

File system:

|-- index.js
|-- api
        |-- cities
        |        |-- :cityId
        |                   |-- get.js
        |-- companies
                    |-- post.js
                    |-- :companyId
                                |-- get.js

Then, you can load it automatically

var router = require('express-path-router');
 
router.load({
    app: app,
    path: __dirname + '/api'
  });

Documentation

Each API point (file like .../api/companies/:companyId/get.js) is based on the following structure:

module.exports = {
    pattern: string,
    middlewares: [function, ..., function],
    callback: function
}

• pattern - string - optional - pattern replacement (ie: '(*)' will replace a get:/products/:id by get:/products/(*))
• middlewares - function[] - optional - list of middlewares to add on the route
• callback - function - API point payload

A syntactic sugar may be used in the module, by returning a function or an array of function. Thoses functions will be set as middleware and callback.

_.js

Specials files _.js may be added everywhere in the file structure. Thoses files middlewares will be added on each API point in their sub-structure.

Example:

|-- companies
            |-- _.js    {middlewares: [A, B, C]}
            |-- post.js {middlewares: [D], callback: E}
            |-- :companyId
                        |-- _.js {middlewares: [F, G]}
                        |-- get.js {middlewares: [H, I, J], callback: K}

This example will produce the equivalent of:

app.post('companies', A, B, C, D, E);
app.get('companies/:companyId', A, B, C, F, G, H, I, J, K);

load(config, callback)

• config - object

  • app - object - express application
  • path - string - path to load
  • prefix - string - optional - prefix to add on the route
  • hook - function - optional - function call before each route definition to modify the middleware stack

• callback - function - optional

returns undefined when using callback, else a promise.

hook(middlewares, data)

• middlewares - function[]
• data - object
  • file - string - working file (ie. .../api/companies/:companyId/get.js)
  • method - string - http verb (ie. get)
  • module - object - module loaded (ie. get.js module)
  • modules - object[] - ordered list of module (ie. _.js, ...., get.js module list)
  • route - string - target route (ie. companies/:companyId)

The hook function is useful to modify the middleware stack before adding the route. You can either modify the middlewares parameters or return a new array.

Example:

var auth = require('../middlewares/auth');
var token = require('../middlewares/adminToken');
 
router.load({
    app: app,
    prefix: 'admin',
    path: __dirname,
    hook: function (middlewares, data) {
      logger.info('    ADMIN: ' + data.route + ' [' + data.method + ']');
      middlewares.unshift(token);
      if (data.module.registered) {
        middlewares.unshift(auth);
      }
    }
  });

License

MIT