Express Auto Routes

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In most of the time, we need to mount handlers / controllers to routes manually.

e.g.

/** now we are in routes/index.js **/
var homeRouter = require('./home/'),
  userCtrl = require('../controllers/user');

// Method 1: mount a sub router to a path. kinda code splitting but still complicated
app.use('/', homeRouter);

// Method 2: mount controllers to routes one by one, sucks
app.get('/user', userCtrl.index);
app.post('/user/login', userCtrl.login);
app.get('/user/logout', userCtrl.logout);
...

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It's hardly elegant, so here comes express-auto-routes.
Firstly, npm install express-auto-routes --save

e.g.

/** now we are in app.js **/
var path = require('path'),
  express = require('express'),
  app = express();

var autoRoutes = require('express-auto-routes')(app); // you don't need `routes` folder any more
autoRoutes(path.join(__dirname, './controllers')); // auto mounting... done!

// ...other configures

app.listen(8080);

/** now we are in controllers/hello/world.js **/
exports.get = function (req, res, next) {
  res.send('hello world');
};

Then visit localhost:8080/hello/world, you will see hello world

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The magic is just globbing all the valid controller files and resolve them based on relative path.
Since we glob files recursively, without doubt it supports unlimited sub folders.

e.g.

controllers/a/b/c/d/e/f/g.js => localhost:8080/a/b/c/d/e/f/g

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Here I highly recommend you checking out the example/ folder for more detail.

> npm install
> npm run example

[AutoMount] use /home/
[AutoMount] use /user/
[AutoMount] use /user/logout/
[AutoMount] all /user/setting/
[AutoMount] get /home/foo/bar/world/
[AutoMount] get /user/setting/:uid
[AutoMount] delete /user/logout/:uid
[AutoMount] get /home/foo/hello/
[AutoMount] get /home/foo/bar/
[AutoMount] get /user/logout/
[AutoMount] get /user/:uid?
[AutoMount] get /home/foo/
[AutoMount] get /home/xyz/
[AutoMount] post /setting
[AutoMount] get /login
[AutoMount] get /home/
[AutoMount] post /login
[AutoMount] put /user/
[AutoMount] post /log
[AutoMount] get /

then visit localhost:8080 and test the above APIs with Postman

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[ A more practical project ] checkout A Simple Message Board RESTful API which based on this package.