route-node

route-node

A package to create a tree (trie) of named routes, allowing you to build and match routes.

Install

$ npm install route-node --save

Usage

Building your tree:

import rootNode from 'route-node';

// Create nodes
const usersNode = new RouteNode('users', '/users', [
    new RouteNode('list', '/list'),
    new RouteNode('view', '/view/:id')
]);

// You can also use plain objects
const ordersNode = new RouteNode('orders', '/orders', [
    {name: 'pending',   path: '/pending'},
    {name: 'completed', path: '/completed'},
    {name: 'view',      path: '/view/:id'}
]);

// Creating a top root node
const rootNode = new RouteNode('', '', [
    ordersNode,
    usersNode
]);

// Add nodes programmatically
rootNode.add(new RouteNode('home', '/home'));

You can chain constructor with add and addNode functions, making the example above shorter:

const rootNode = new RouteNode()
    .addNode('users',            '/users'))
    .addNode('users.view',       '/view/:id')
    .addNode('users.list',       '/list')
    .addNode('orders',           '/orders')
    .addNode('orders.pending',   '/pending')
    .addNode('orders.completed', '/completed')
    .addNode('orders.view',      '/view/:id')

And then build paths, or match your paths against your tree:

rootNode.getPath('users.view');                // => "/users/view/:id"
rootNode.buildPath('users.view', {id: 1});     // => "/users/view/1"

rootNode.matchPath('/users/view/1');           // => {name: "users.view", params: {id: "1"}}

Trailing slashes can be optional

When using matchPath, you can pass a trailingSlash option for non-strict matching on trailing slashes.

rootNode.matchPath('/users/view/1');           // => {name: "users.view", params: {id: "1"}}
rootNode.matchPath('/users/view/1/');          // => null

rootNode.matchPath('/users/view/1/', { trailingSlash: true });
// => {name: "users.view", params: {id: "1"}}

buildPath also accepts a trailingSlash and strictQueryParams option. When trailingSlash is set to true, it will force a trailing slash on built paths. When set to false, it will remove trailing slashes. When strictQueryParams is set to false (default true) additional parameters will be serialised as query parameters.

Query parameters are optional, however a match will fail if the URL contains non-expected query parameters. This can be prevented by setting strictQueryParams to false.

/ paths

When using a deeply nested / path, it will automatically be matched when its parent is matched.

const tree = new RouteNode('', '', [
    new RouteNode('admin', '/admin', [
        new RouteNode('home', '/'),
        new RouteNode('users', '/users')
    ])
]);

tree.matchPath('/admin'); // => { name: 'admin.home', params: {} }
tree.buildPath('admin.home', {}, { trailingSlash: false }); // => '/admin'

Other options

When matching paths, you can use two other options: ignoreSearch for not taking query parameters into account, and strongMatching (default true) for enforcing strong partial matching (making sure matches are well delimited).

Callbacks

When adding routes (with contructor or .add), you can pass a callback which will be executed for each route added successfully to the tree.

Based on

• path-parser for parsing, matching and building paths.

Changelog

1.8.4 (2017-08-07)

Bug Fixes

• don't remove trailing slash of / if useTrailingSlash is set to false (61f4b21)

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