redirective

Shortcut to provide redirect callback to Express routes.

app.use('/users/:userId', redirect('https://new-server/users/:userId'));

Installation

$ npm install redirective --save

Usage

var redirect = require('redirective');
 
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
 
app.use('/my-route', redirect('http://myothersite.com/my-route'));  // default redirect
app.use('/my-other-route', redirect(301, 'http://myothersite.com/my-other-route')); // permanent redirect
 
 
app.listen(3000);

Examples

Route specific

app.use('/all-methods', redirect('/my-other-route'));  // All methods

HTTP Method specific

app.get('/my-get-route', redirect('/my-other-get-route'));  // GET only

Fully-qualified URL for redirecting to a different site

app.get('/my-route', redirect('http://expressjs.com/en/guide/routing.html'));

Relative to the current URL

app.get('/blog/admin/', redirect('post/new'));  // Redirects to /blog/admin/post/new
app.get('/blog/admin', redirect('post/new'));  // Redirects to /blog/post/new

For additional use cases refer to Express Redirect.

URL with parameters

app.get('/users/:userId', redirect('http://my-other-site/app/readers/:userId')); // /users/1234 => http://my-other-site/app/readers/1234
app.get('/users/:userId/books/:bookId', redirect('/books/:bookId/users/:userId')); // /users/1234/books/6789 => /books/6789/users/1234

API

redirect([status,] url);

Same signature as res.redirect

• status - A positive integer that corresponds to an HTTP status code.

  Defaults to 302.

• url - partial or full url to redirect to.

  The url can have Express Route style named parameters.

  Named parameters in redirect url will be substituted with values from same named parameters in source path.

  Refer example.

License

MIT