router

Router

A lean and mean web router for node.js.
It is available through npm:

npm install router

The router routes using the method and a pattern

var router = require('router').create();

router.get('/', function(request, response) {
	response.writeHead(200);
	response.end('hello index page');
});

router.listen(8080); // start the server on port 8080

If you want to grap a part of the path you can use capture groups in the pattern:

router.get('/{base}', function(request, response) {
	var base = request.matches.base; // ex: if the path is /foo/bar, then base = foo
});

The capture patterns matches until the next / or character present after the group

router.get('/{x}x{y}', function(request, response) {
	// if the path was /200x200, then request.matches = {x:'200', y:'200'}
});

You can also use regular expressions and the related capture groups instead:

router.get(/^\/foo\/(\w+)/, function(request, response) {
	var group = request.matches[1]; // if path is /foo/bar, then group is bar
});

Besides get the avaiable methods are post, put, head, del, request and upgrade. request matches all the standard http methods and upgrade is usually used for websockets.