base-routes

Plugin for adding routes support to your base application. Requires templates support to work.

• Install
• Usage
• API
• About

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Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save base-routes

Usage

Register the plugin with your base application.

var routes = require('base-routes');
var Base = require('base-app');

var app = new Base();
app.use(routes());

API

.Router

The Router and Route classes are on the app instance, in case they need to be accessed directly.

Example

var router = new app.Router();
var route = new app.Route();

.handle

Handle middleware method for the given file.

Params

• methodName {String}: Name of the router method to handle.
• file {Object}: View object
• next {Function}: Callback function
• returns {undefined}

Example

app.handle('methodName', file, next);

.handleOnce

Run the given middleware handler only if the file has not already been handled by method.

Params

• method {Object}: The name of the handler method to call.
• file {Object}
• returns {undefined}

Example

app.handleOnce(method, file, callback);
// example
app.handleOnce('onLoad', file, callback);

.route

Create a new Route for the given path. Each route contains a separate middleware stack. See the en-route API documentation for details on adding handlers and middleware to routes.

Params

• path {String}
• returns {Object}: Returns the instance for chaining.

Example

app.create('posts');
app.route(/blog/)
  .all(function(file, next) {
    // do something with file
    next();
  });

app.post('whatever', {path: 'blog/foo.bar', content: 'bar baz'});

.param

Add callback triggers to route parameters, where name is the name of the parameter and fn is the callback function.

Params

• name {String}
• fn {Function}
• returns {Object}: Returns the instance for chaining.

Example

app.param('title', function(view, next, title) {
  //=> title === 'foo.js'
  next();
});

app.onLoad('/blog/:title', function(view, next) {
  //=> view.path === '/blog/foo.js'
  next();
});

.all

Special route method that works just like the router.METHOD() methods, except that it matches all verbs.

Params

• path {String}
• callback {Function}
• returns {Object} this: for chaining

Example

app.all(/\.hbs$/, function(view, next) {
  // do stuff to view
  next();
});

.handler

Add a router handler method to the instance. Interchangeable with the handlers method.

Params

• method {String}: Name of the handler method to define.
• returns {Object}: Returns the instance for chaining

Example

app.handler('onFoo');
// or
app.handler(['onFoo', 'onBar']);

.handlers

Add one or more router handler methods to the instance.

Params

• methods {Array|String}: One or more method names to define.
• returns {Object}: Returns the instance for chaining

Example

app.handlers(['onFoo', 'onBar', 'onBaz']);
// or
app.handlers('onFoo');

About

Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

• base: Framework for rapidly creating high quality node.js applications, using plugins like building blocks | homepage
• en-route: Routing for static site generators, build systems and task runners, heavily based on express.js routes… more | homepage
• gulp-routes: Add middleware to run for specified routes in your gulp pipeline. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

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To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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