express-router is a library for organizing routes of an express application.
express-router lets you write your express routes in a simpler way. You just have to create a 'routes' folder inside your project and place your routes in an index.txt file.
So your app will be structured like this:
- app.js
- /routes/
- index.txt
- products.js
- users.js
Then, in your app.js, you just do this after defining app = express():
require('express-router')();If you want to use another folder for routes:
require('express-router')('thisismynewroutesfolder');If you do not want to define 'app' globally (express-router will check for global.app):
var app = express();
require('express-router')(app);Or both:
var app = express();
require('express-router')('thisismynewroutesfolder', app);Finally you structure your routes in the index.txt file like this: method url middleware1,middleware2,...,middlewareN (empty lines and comments are supported):
//BEGIN PRODUCT ROUTES
GET /products products.list
POST /products products.create
GET /shoes products.shoes.find,products.shoes.list
//END PRODUCT ROUTES
//BEGIN USER ROUTES
GET /users/new users.new
POST /users/:user users.show
//END USER ROUTES
$ npm install express-router
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