Installation:

npm install router-sprouter

Then, require the package into your project.

var router = require ('router-sprouter');

To use the Logger and resWriteHead modules, do the following:

var logger = require('router-sprouter').logger;
var resWriteHead = require('router-sprouter').resWriteHead;

Usage:

To properly use the router, first create a separate file(s) with your request/response handler functions. For example:

function upload() {
    /* put handler functionality here */
}

Then, register your handlers with the router via the Router.setRoute() method.

Redirection:

The router allows you to register redirections for any incoming urls with the setRedirect() method. You can also set a redirection status of either 301 or 302. When the router detects that an incoming request is pointed at a redirected url, it will automatically re-point the url to the correct request handler.

Be sure to have set up a route handler (via setRoutes()) for your redirection url, otherwise setting a redirect will result in a 404 error.

You can check if a url has a registered redirect with the getRedirect() method.

Response writeHead:

Instead of writing out response.WriteHead like so,

myRouter.get('/awesome', function(req, res){
**res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});**
  res.write('wow, so awesome, such router');
  res.end();
});

simply include in the resWriteHead function.

myRouter.get('/awesome', function(req, res){
**resWriteHead(200, 'text/plain');**
  res.write('wow, so awesome, such router');
  res.end();
});

Logging:

Router Sprouter contains a couple helpful methods to auto-generate logs with each request and response. The logs generated will be stored (somewhat inconveniently) in your node_modules/router-sprouter/lib/log/ folder. (Future versions will allow for custom log folder configuration) You must implicitly call logger.logReq(req) at the point at which you want to log the request/response. For example, to log the req and res from the above function, insert the following two lines of code:

myRouter.get('/awesome', function(req, res){
**logger.logReq(req);**
  resWriteHead(200, 'text/plain');
  res.write('wow, so awesome, such router');
  res.end();
**logger.logRes(res);**
});

It can also clear each log folder upon the following function call:

// Clear request logs folder
logger.clearReqLogs();

// Clear response logs folder
logger.clearResLogs();

Functions:

• Basic Router

  Router.setRoute(method, route, handler);

  Router.getRoute(req, res);

• Url Request/Response Logger

  Logger.logReq(req);

  Logger.logRes(res);

  Logger.clearResLogs();

  Logger.clearReqLogs();

• Redirect Support

  Router.setRedirect(url, redirect, type);

  Router.getRedirect(url);

• Response writeHead encapsulation

  resWriteHead(status code, 'MIME-type');

License: MIT

Copyright (c) <2015> <David Vicklund, Ryan Heathers, Jack Sneed>

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