make-route-map

Routing in web apps can be a subtle, but persistent source of bugs. You think you've updated every reference to a route you're changing, and BAM. You've caused a bug in some unrelated part of your app.

Keep your routes in a single, type-safe source of truth with a routeMap.

We've been using it at Yozobi in production apps for some time now, and it's saved us a lot of headaches.

makeRouteMap

Simple

import { makeRouteMap } from 'make-route-map';
 
const routeMap = makeRouteMap({
  users: {
    path: '/users',
  },
  admin: {
    path: '/admin',
  },
});
 
console.log(routeMap.admin());
// '/admin'
 
console.log(routeMap.users());
// '/users'

Path Params and Search

import { makeRouteMap } from 'make-route-map';
 
const routeMap = makeRouteMap({
  editUser: {
    path: '/users/:id/edit',
    params: {
      id: true,
    },
  },
  auth: {
    path: '/auth',
    search: {
      desiredUsername: true,
    },
  },
});
 
console.log(routeMap.editUser({ params: { id: '240' } }));
// '/users/240/edit'
 
console.log(routeMap.auth({ search: { desiredUsername: 'mattpocock' } }));
// '/auth?desiredUsername=mattpocock'

makeNavigate

makeNavigate gives you a type-safe way of navigating around your app.

import { makeRouteMap, makeNavigate } from 'make-route-map';
 
const routeMap = makeRouteMap({
  editUser: {
    path: '/users/:id/edit',
    params: {
      id: true,
    },
  },
  auth: {
    path: '/auth',
    search: {
      desiredUsername: true,
    },
  },
});
 
// This could be replaced with any history.push implementation
const goToRoute = route => {
  window.location.href = route;
};
 
const navigate = makeNavigate(routeMap, goToRoute);
 
// This would take the user to '/users/240/edit'
navigate.editUser({
  params: {
    id: '240',
  },
});

useNavigate in React

In React, this can be combined with a hook to make a simple useNavigate hook. This example uses react-router-dom.

import { makeRouteMap, makeNavigate } from 'make-route-map';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';
 
const routeMap = makeRouteMap({
  root: {
    path: '/',
  },
});
 
const useNavigate = () => {
  const history = useHistory();
  const navigate = makeNavigate(routeMap, history.push);
  return navigate;
};
 
const Button = () => {
  const navigate = useNavigate();
  return <button onClick={navigate.root}>Go Home</button>;
};

Options

make-route-map is at an early stage, so I'm keen to hear what you need to make this work for you.

paramMatcher

Helps for when your path params don't match the default :id pattern.

import { makeRouteMap } from 'make-route-map';
 
const routeMap = makeRouteMap(
  {
    editUser: {
      path: '/users/$id/edit',
      params: {
        id: true,
      },
    },
  },
  {
    paramMatcher: param => new RegExp(`\\$${param}`),
  }
);
 
console.log(
  routeMap.editUser({
    params: {
      id: '240',
    },
  })
);
// '/users/240/edit'

import { makeRouteMap } from 'make-route-map';
 
const routeMap = makeRouteMap({
  editUser: {
    path: '/users/:id/edit',
    params: {
      id: true,
    },
  },
});
 
import { makeNavigate } from 'make-route-map';
import { useHistory } from 'react-router-dom';
 
const useNavigate = () => {
  const history = useHistory();
  const navigate = makeNavigate(routeMap, history.push);
  return navigate;
};
 
const Button = () => {
  const navigate = useNavigate();
  return (
    <button onClick={() => navigate.editUser({ params: { id: '240' } })}>
      Edit User
    </button>
  );
};