@aofl/router

AOFL Router is a simple client side router. It supports the history API, dynamic paths and provides multiple middleware hooks. It makes no path rendering assumptions.

Api Documentation

Examples

• https://stackblitz.com/edit/1-0-0-router?embed=1

Installation

$ npm i -S @aofl/router

Middleware hooks

Name	Arguments	Description
before	fn[Function]	Executes before a route has even been matched. Middleware here should be any prep work that needs to happen before a route begins to resolve. It will note be provided a matched route at this point.
beforeEach	fn[Function]	Executes after all "before" middleware. At this point a matchedRoute will be available in the response object passed to the middleware callback. Redirects can occur here.
afterEach	fn[Function]	Executes after all "beforeEach" middleware. Again a matchedRoute will be available in the response object passed to the middleware callback. The response body may also indicate a redirected route from a beforeEach middleware; this allows afterEach middleware to act on that information. No redirects however, are allowed at this point. So any changes to redirect.to will be ignored.
after	fn[Function]	Middleware here executes after the route has been updated in the browser. At least one middleware function is required here to call the `resolve

Middleware fn signature

fn(request, response, next)

request: {to: String, from: String} | Immutable original request object. Should never be modified.

response: {to: String, from: String, *matchedRoute: Object} | Begins as a clone of request. Can be modified in before and beforeEach middleware.

• matchedRoute will be the matched object from the route config.
• The response object should be used to store and pass information down the middleware chain.
• Redirects are made by updating response.to in before or beforeEach middleware.

next: The next method must be called with the response object. Else the middleware chain will break and the route update will not occur.

Sample middleware

import myRouter from 'my-router';

// Middleware to redirect any requests to the /private dir to /login
router.before(function(request, response, next) {
  if (/private/.test(request.to)) {
    response.to = '/login';
  }
  next(response);
})

Properties

none

Methods

Name	Arguments	Description
init	config[Object]	Initialize the router with the router configuration object
navigate	path[String], force[Boolean], popped[Boolean], meta[Object]	performs path match and applies middleware

** See middleware hooks for middleware methods