route-er

A package that enables you to decouple your routes from controllers and organise all routes in a single place.

Version 1.0.0

Getting started

The controller (the business logic functions) that you want to attach to a route should be kept in separate files and exported as below.

controller1.js

module.exports = {
    route1:function(req,res){
        res.send('You are in route 1');
    },
    route2:function(req,res){
        res.send('You are in route 2')        
    }
}

Simple Routes

For Simple routes ie. routes that doesnot need any custom middleware functions, You can decalre it in a route.js file in root easily as below.

route.js

var controller1 = require('./controller1.js');
module.exports = {
    'get /route1': controller1.route1,
    'post /route1': controller1.route2,
    }

PS: If you want to rename the file or keep it in another location you can use setRoutePath() and pass the absolute path of you file.

Complex routes

Most of the times you need to work with middlewares and nested routes. But dont worry we got you covered. You can decalre it as.

'get':[
        {
            path:'/route1',
            middleware:[],
            controller: controller1.route1,
            children:[{
                path:'/childRoute',
                controller:controller1.childRoute
            }
            ]
        },
        .
        .
        .
        .
        {
            path:'/route2',
            controller: controller1.route2
        }
    ],
'post':[
        {
            path:'/route2',
            middleware:[],
            controller: controller1.route2
        }
        .
        .
        .
        .
]

you can decalre sub routes with help of children key, it accespts an array of child routes. If you are from angular background you will find it similar to the routing used there.

Initialising the routes

var routeEr = require('route-er')
routeEr.setRoutePath(__dirname + '/route.js'); 
app.use('/',routeEr.init('byMethod'));

byMethod parameter should be passed to init() if you want to use the complex route, If you want to use the simple route just leave it blank.

Methods

setRoutePath(path_of_file)

Accepts the path of file where routes are declared.

Note: Accepts only absolute part, you can use __dirname to get it

init(type)

Accepts 'byMethod' for complex routes. Empty for simple