koa-trail
v0.0.2
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A koa router which supports chained route matching.
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koa-trail
Trail is a router for koa with the option to explicitly execute multiple routes on a single request (similar to express routing).
For example, assume we have an authenticate middleware function which should run on every /api/*
route. Instead of:
// chain the authenticate on every route
app.get('/api/users', authenticate, apiController.getUsers);
app.get('/api/profile/:userId', authenticate, apiController.getProfile);
app.get('/api/page/:pageId', authenticate, apiController.getPage);
app.put('/api/:contentId/like', authenticate, apiController.likeContent);
We can simply apply the authentication handler once on a wildcard route:
app.all('/api/*', authenticate);
// the above route will be called before of any of the below routes matching /api/*
// therefore, we don't need to explicitly chain it on each route.
app.get('/api/users', apiController.getUsers);
app.get('/api/profile/:userId', apiController.getProfile);
app.get('/api/page/:pageId', apiController.getPage);
app.put('/api/:contentId/like', apiController.likeContent);
This reduces chaining on individual routes, and may improve security since there is less likelihood of a developer forgetting to add important security middleware on certain routes.
This middleware is largely inspired by koa-router. The reason for building a new router is that they explicitly decided not to allow the route chaining behavior outlined above.
Usage
Installation
npm install koa-trail
Setup
var koa = require('koa');
var trail = require('koa-trail');
var app = koa();
app.use(trail(app));
//now we can attach routes
app.get('/users', function *(next) {
// ...
});
app.post('/users', function *(next) {
// ...
});
When app
is passed as a parameter to trail, it creates a method on the app
for every http method (get, post, put, delete, etc), plus app.all, app.register, and app.url. If you would prefer not to "pollute" the app
object with these methods, you may initialize a router object without passing the app parameter.
var koa = require('koa');
var trail = require('koa-trail');
var app = koa();
var router = new trail();
// pass the router.handler object, not the router object itself
app.use(router.handler);
// now attach routes to the router object instead of app
router.get('/users', function *(next) {
// ...
});
router.post('/users', function *(next) {
// ...
});
Route Chaining
Named Routes
Routes can be named which makes them