express-page

express-page

Simple webpage controllers for Express.

Provides a Page object context for your controller with the following properties:

• this.req
• this.res
• this.accessDenied()
• this.css[]
• this.js[]
• this.notFound()
• this.params
• this.redirect()
• this.render()
• this.setView()
• this.setLayout()
• this.templates

Install

npm install express-page

Basic example

var express = require('express')
var Page = require('express-page')
var app = express()
var db = {
  count: 0
}
var controller = function() {
  this.db.count++
  this.res.send('Count is ' + this.db.count)
}

app.get('/example', function(req, res) {
  var page = Page(controller, {
    db: db
  }, req, res)
  page.run()
})

Dynamic routing based on file scan

var express = require('express')
var scan = require('sugar-glob')
var Page = require('express-page')
var app = express()

scan({
  dir: './pages'
})
.file('*index.js', function(file) {
  var uri = '/' + file.dir
  app.get(uri, function(req, res) {
    var controller = require(file.filename)
    var page = Page(controller, {}, req, res)
    page.run()
  })
})