Qrouter

Router middleware for express

• Provides functionalities provides by default express router
• Adds web socket support for your REST endpoints with no additional code
• Automatic registration of endpoints

Installation

Install using npm:

npm install qrouter

##Usage

Initialising middleware

app.use(router.middleware({
    handler: app,
    routes:'app/components/api',
    paramAware: true,
    paramPrefix: 'tenant'
}));

• handler : the express application
• routes : folder to find the router controllers
• paramAware : define if service is param aware (tenant, language etc) or not (optional field), by default param unaware
• paramPrefix : the parameter name to use for the param awarenesses passed in api urls.

Router Controller Structure

var QmrmRouter = require('qrouter'); // include package
var PARAM_UNAWARE = false;
var router = new QmrmRouter({ // create router
	rest: '/prefix',  // REST endpoint prefix (all route will be prefixed with it)
	socket: {
		req: 'prefix.req' // socket request message prefix (all socket request message will be prefixed with it)
		resp: 'prefix.resp' // socket response message prefix (all socket response message will be prefixed with it)
	}
});

router.options(PARAM_UNAWARE, '/', cors());
router.get(PARAM_UNAWARE, 'status.get', 'status.resp', '/', cors(), function (req, res) {  
	// param unaware endpoint in param aware application
	// first parameter defines it is param unaware (optional argument)
	// second parameter is socket request message
	// third parameter is socket response message
	// fourth paramter is route
	// can have any number of express middlewares after this
});

router.get('status.get', 'status.resp', '/', cors(), function (req, res) {  
	// param aware endpoint in param aware application
});