express-routes-mapper

A simple package to map your routes for your expressjs application

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Getting started

• Install
• Use
  • Routes
  • Controller
  • Middlewares
  • Express with mapped Routes
• Supported Methods
• Dynamic Routes

Install

$ npm i -S express-routes-mapper

or

$ yarn add express-routes-mapper

Use

After the installation you can import the package to your express project.

Routes

Create your routes file:

const routes = {
  'POST /user': 'UserController.create'
};
 
export default routes; // module.exports = routes;

Every post request to your server to route '/user' will call the function 'create' on the 'UserController'.

Controller

Create a file named UserController.js

// es6 class syntax
export default class UserController {
  create (req, res) {
    res.send('created a User with es6 class syntax');
  };
};
 
// object factory pattern
const UserController = () => {
  const create = (req, res) => {
    res.send('created a User with without es6 class syntax');
  };
 
  return {
    create,
  };
};
 
export default UserController; // module.exports = UserController;

Middlewares

Middlewares allow you perform any set of operation on a particular route. They are executed from top-to-bottom, as they are arranged in the middlewares array.

To proceed to the next middleware or the controller, never forget to call the next() function.

For more examples, See Middleware Example.

Grouped Routes Middlewares

Middlewares can be added to a general set of routes. Such middlewares would be executed before any of the controller methods are called.

const groupedMiddleware1 = (req, res, next) => {
  next();
};
 
const groupedMiddleware2 = (req, res, next) => {
  next();
};
 
const router = mapRoutes(routes, 'test/fixtures/controllers/', [groupedMiddleware1, groupedMiddleware2]);
 

Middlewares On Routes

Middlewares can also be added to just a single route path.

const checkIfAutheticated = (req, res, next) => {
  console.log('authenticated');
  next();
};
 
const verifyFacebookAuth = (req, res, next) => {
  console.log('unverified');
  return res
    .status(400)
    .json({status: false, message: 'Sorry, you aren\'t authorized on facebook'});
};
 
const routes = {
  'GET /user:id': {
    path: 'UserController.get',
    middlewares: [
         checkIfAutheticated,
         verifyFacebookAuth,
    ],
  },
  
  'POST /user': 'UserController.create'
};

Express with mapped Routes

I assume you have a folder structure like this, but it can be adapted to any folder structure.

.
+-- src
|   +-- config
|   |   +-- routes.js
|   |
|   +-- controllers
|   |   +-- UserController.js
|   |
|   +-- models
|   |
|   app.js
|
package.json

Your app.js could look a bit like this:

The magic happens here:

• import routes from './config/routes'; the file where all the routes are mapped
• import mapRoutes from 'express-routes-mapper'; the package that makes the mapping possible
• const mappedRoutes = mapRoutes(routes, 'src/controllers/'); tell router to use your routes
• app.use('/', mappedRoutes); tell express to use the mapped routes

import express from 'express'; // const express = require('express');
import http from 'http'; // const http = require('http');
 
import mapRoutes from 'express-routes-mapper'; // const mapRoutes = require('express-routes-mapper');
import routes from './config/routes'; // const routes = require('./config/routes');
 
const app = express();
const server = http.Server(app);
const port = 4444;
// mapRoutes takes two arguments
//    - 1. the routes
//    - 2. the path to your controllers from process.cwd();
const mappedRoutes = mapRoutes(routes, 'src/controllers/');
 
app.use('/', mappedRoutes);
 
server.listen(port, () => {
  console.log('There we go ♕');
  console.log(`Gladly listening on http://127.0.0.1:${port}`);
});

Supported methods

All routes supported by the express framework is natively supported by this library (e.g. GET, PUT, POST, DELETE etc.).

const routes = {
  'GET /someroute' : 'SomeController.somefunction',
  'POST /someroute' : 'SomeController.somefunction',
  'PUT /someroute' : 'SomeController.somefunction',
  'DELETE /someroute' : 'SomeController.somefunction',
  // etc.
};

Dynamic Routes

Simply use a colon : for defining dynamic routes.

const routes = {
  'GET /someroute/:id' : 'SomeController.someFunction',
};

If you make a get request to http://localhost/someroute/1 the number 1 (:id) is now in the SomeController accessible.

// object factory pattern
const SomeController = () => {
  const someFunction = (req, res) => {
    const id = req.params.id;
 
    // do some fency stuff with the id
  };
 
  return {
    someFunction,
  };
};
 
export default SomeController; // module.exports = SomeController;

Contribution

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b feature-name
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Some commit message'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin feature-name
5. Submit a pull request 😉😉

License

MIT © Lukas Aichbauer