lite-router

Introduction

I needed some simple routing solution for my rxjs-experiments project (not based on any framework or libraries that provides routers out of the box). So, I made a micro router, based on history@2.x.x.

The next step was to publish it as an npm package (my main interest being the build workflow to setup on an es6+ code base specific to npm packages with multiples files).

Read the blog post about the packaging workflow to npm in multiple formats

Features

• history support (back button)
• mutiple routes / customizable routes
• deferred mounting (only mount a route when a promise is resolved)
• params support (optional)

This package is available as multiple formats: commonjs, umd and ecmascript modules.

Install

npm install lite-router

Use

Code example

import router from 'lite-router';
 
/**
 * Simple handler on route "/home" and any routes (since using the wildcard "*")
 */
const mountHome = () => {
  // code to run on route match
  document.getElementById('home-content').style.display = 'block';
  const unMount = () => {
    // code to run on route leave (you wight wanna clean listeners or others)
    document.getElementById('home-content').style.display = 'none';
  };
  // always return the unMount method
  return unMount;
};
 
/**
 * Param matching on route "/router/posts/:category/:title/edit"
 * params will contain an object like {category: "foo", title: "bar"}
 *
 * Also using Regexp matching: /^\/router\/user\/([^\/?#]+)\/([^\/?#]+)$/i
 */
const mountParams = ({ location, params, history }) => {
  document.getElementById('params-content').style.display = 'block';
  console.log(location, params, history);
  const unMount = () => {
    document.getElementById('params-content').style.display = 'none';
  };
  return unMount;
}
 
const routes = [
  { pattern: '/', handler: mountHome },
  { pattern: '/router/posts/:category/:title/edit', handler: mountParams },
  { pattern: /^\/router\/user\/([^\/?#]+)\/([^\/?#]+)$/i, handler: routerHandler },
  { pattern: '/defered-mounting', handler: mountHome, resolve: new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, 1000)) } // will mount mountHome handler on /defered-mounting once the resolve promise is resolve
  { pattern: '*' handler: mountHome }
];
 
// init router and return the unlisten function to use eventually when you'll be done
const unlisten = router(routes);

More examples

You'll find the example folder which contains basic examples. A DEMO is available here.

More advanced examples can be found on rxjs-experiments:

• routes
• router init

Api

Import router

import router from lite-router

Init routes

router(routes)

The routes array contains objects with the following properties:

• pattern: can be:
  • a simple string - ex: /foo/bar
  • a string containing matching params (identified with a colon) - ex: /posts/:category/:title/edit
    • you will retrieve the matched params in the params parameter of the handler
  • a regexp - ex: /^\/router\/user\/([^\/?#]+)\/([^\/?#]+)$/i
• handler: the function that will mount your view, must return an unmount function (to cleanup eventually)
  • signature: ({ location, params, history }) => [Function] unmount
• resolve: (optional) a Promise, that when resolved, will let the matched handler mount

Contributers

Install

git clone https://github.com/topheman/lite-router.git
cd lite-router
yarn

Install, then eventually, npm link the library to use it in local.

In your own project where you want to locally test lite-router, just run npm link lite-router.

Build

• One shot
  • all formats: npm run build
  • commonjs (output in lib dir): npm run build:commonjs
  • ecmascript module (ouput in es dir): npm run build:es
  • umd (output as dist/lite-router.js) : npm run build:umd
  • umd - minified (output as dist/lite-router.min.js) : npm run build:umd:min
• Watch mode:
  • commonjs: npm run build:watch or npm run build:commonjs:watch
  • umd: npm run build:umd:watch
  • es: npm run build:es:watch

Test

• One shot: npm test (will also lint the source code)
• Only unit tests: npm run jest
• Watch mode: npm run jest:watch

The tests are in the tests folder, it is ran via jest.

Publish

Publish npm package

npm run build
npm publish

Publish gh-pages

The gh-pages tracking branch is binded in build/dist folder. If you haven't it yet:

mkdir build
cd build
mkdir dist
cd dist
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/topheman/lite-router.git
git fetch origin gh-pages
git checkout gh-pages

If you already have a build/dist folder, to update the github pages:

npm run example:build
cd build/dist
git add .
git commit -m "Update gh-pages"
git push origin gh-pages

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