Turbolinks-Express

Express middleware for Turbolinks 5 support. Aims to provide similar functionality as the turbolinks-rails gem, but for Express.

Getting Started

1. yarn add turbolinks-express

2. Use the middlewares after your session middleware. For example:

   // app.js
    
   var express = require('express');
   var session = require('express-session');
   var turbolinks = require('turbolinks-express');
    
   var app = express();
   app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));
    
   app.use(session({
     secret: 'secret_key_base',
     resave: false,
     saveUninitialized: true
   }))
    
   // turbolinks
   app.use(turbolinks.redirect)
   app.use(turbolinks.location)
    
   app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
     console.log('Node app is running on port', app.get('port'));
     console.log('Running in '+ app.settings.env)
   });

Details

I won't rehash what Turbolinks is, but when using it you have to make two server side changes:

1. You have to tell Turbolinks how to update the address bar after chained redirects. The XHR requests will silently follow the redirects, but then your address bar will be out of date. Official docs

2. After remote form submissions that would normally redirect, we return JavaScript that performs a Turbolinks.visit. Official docs

Adding these middleares allows you to use Express's res.redirect("/users") as you always have while performing those optimizations for you ☝️

License

MIT