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Synopsis

Director is a router. Routing is the process of determining what code to run when a URL is requested.

Motivation

A routing library that works in both the browser and node.js environments with as few differences as possible. Simplifies the development of Single Page Apps and Node.js applications. Dependency free (doesn't require jQuery or Express, etc).

Status

Features

Client-Side Routing
Server-Side HTTP Routing
Server-Side CLI Routing

Usage

API Documentation
Frequently Asked Questions

Building client-side script

Run the provided CLI script.

./bin/build

Client-side Routing

It simply watches the hash of the URL to determine what to do, for example:

http://foo.com/#/bar

Client-side routing (aka hash-routing) allows you to specify some information about the state of the application using the URL. So that when the user visits a specific URL, the application can be transformed accordingly.

Hash route

Here is a simple example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>A Gentle Introduction</title>

    <script
      src="https://rawgit.com/flatiron/director/master/build/director.min.js">
    </script>

    <script>
      var author = function () { console.log("author"); };
      var books = function () { console.log("books"); };
      var viewBook = function (bookId) {
        console.log("viewBook: bookId is populated: " + bookId);
      };

      var routes = {
        '/author': author,
        '/books': [books, function() {
          console.log("An inline route handler.");
        }],
        '/books/view/:bookId': viewBook
      };

      var router = Router(routes);

      router.init();
    </script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#/author">#/author</a></li>
      <li><a href="#/books">#/books</a></li>
      <li><a href="#/books/view/1">#/books/view/1</a></li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>

Director works great with your favorite DOM library, such as jQuery.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>A Gentle Introduction 2</title>

    <script
      src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js">
    </script>

    <script
      src="https://rawgit.com/flatiron/director/master/build/director.min.js">
    </script>

    <script>
    $('document').ready(function() {
      //
      // create some functions to be executed when
      // the correct route is issued by the user.
      //
      var showAuthorInfo = function () { console.log("showAuthorInfo"); };
      var listBooks = function () { console.log("listBooks"); };

      var allroutes = function() {
        var route = window.location.hash.slice(2);
        var sections = $('section');
        var section;

        section = sections.filter('[data-route=' + route + ']');

        if (section.length) {
          sections.hide(250);
          section.show(250);
        }
      };

      //
      // define the routing table.
      //
      var routes = {
        '/author': showAuthorInfo,
        '/books': listBooks
      };

      //
      // instantiate the router.
      //
      var router = Router(routes);

      //
      // a global configuration setting.
      //
      router.configure({
        on: allroutes
      });

      router.init();
    });
    </script>
  </head>

  <body>
    <section data-route="author">Author Name</section>
    <section data-route="books">Book1, Book2, Book3</section>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#/author">#/author</a></li>
      <li><a href="#/books">#/books</a></li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>

You can find a browser-specific build of director [here][1] which has all of the server code stripped away.

Server-Side HTTP Routing

Director handles routing for HTTP requests similar to journey or express:

  //
  // require the native http module, as well as director.
  //
  var http = require('http'),
      director = require('director');

  //
  // create some logic to be routed to.
  //
  function helloWorld() {
    this.res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' })
    this.res.end('hello world');
  }

  //
  // define a routing table.
  //
  var router = new director.http.Router({
    '/hello': {
      get: helloWorld
    }
  });

  //
  // setup a server and when there is a request, dispatch the
  // route that was requested in the request object.
  //
  var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
    router.dispatch(req, res, function (err) {
      if (err) {
        res.writeHead(404);
        res.end();
      }
    });
  });

  //
  // You can also do ad-hoc routing, similar to `journey` or `express`.
  // This can be done with a string or a regexp.
  //
  router.get('/bonjour', helloWorld);
  router.get(/hola/, helloWorld);

  //
  // set the server to listen on port `8080`.
  //
  server.listen(8080);

Server-Side CLI Routing

Director supports Command Line Interface routing. Routes for cli options are based on command line input (i.e. process.argv) instead of a URL.

  var director = require('director');

  var router = new director.cli.Router();

  router.on('create', function () {
    console.log('create something');
  });

  router.on(/destroy/, function () {
    console.log('destroy something');
  });

  // You will need to dispatch the cli arguments yourself
  router.dispatch('on', process.argv.slice(2).join(' '));

Using the cli router, you can dispatch commands by passing them as a string. For example, if this example is in a file called foo.js:

$ node foo.js create
create something
$ node foo.js destroy
destroy something

API Documentation

Constructor
Routing Table
Adhoc Routing
Scoped Routing
Routing Events
Configuration
URL Matching
URL Parameters
Wildcard routes
Route Recursion
Async Routing
Resources
History API
Instance Methods
Attach Properties to this
HTTP Streaming and Body Parsing

Constructor

  var router = Router(routes);

Routing Table

An object literal that contains nested route definitions. A potentially nested set of key/value pairs. The keys in the object literal represent each potential part of the URL. The values in the object literal contain references to the functions that should be associated with them. bark and meow are two functions that you have defined in your code.

  //
  // Assign routes to an object literal.
  //
  var routes = {
    //
    // a route which assigns the function `bark`.
    //
    '/dog': bark,
    //
    // a route which assigns the functions `meow` and `scratch`.
    //
    '/cat': [meow, scratch]
  };

  //
  // Instantiate the router.
  //
  var router = Router(routes);

Adhoc Routing

When developing large client-side or server-side applications it is not always possible to define routes in one location. Usually individual decoupled components register their own routes with the application router. We refer to this as Adhoc Routing. Lets take a look at the API director exposes for adhoc routing:

Client-side Routing

  var router = new Router().init();

  router.on('/some/resource', function () {
    //
    // Do something on `/#/some/resource`
    //
  });

HTTP Routing

  var router = new director.http.Router();

  router.get(/\/some\/resource/, function () {
    //
    // Do something on an GET to `/some/resource`
    //
  });

Scoped Routing

In large web appliations, both Client-side and Server-side, routes are often scoped within a few individual resources. Director exposes a simple way to do this for Adhoc Routing scenarios:

  var router = new director.http.Router();

  //
  // Create routes inside the `/users` scope.
  //
  router.path(/\/users\/(\w+)/, function () {
    //
    // The `this` context of the function passed to `.path()`
    // is the Router itself.
    //

    this.post(function (id) {
      //
      // Create the user with the specified `id`.
      //
    });

    this.get(function (id) {
      //
      // Retreive the user with the specified `id`.
      //
    });

    this.get(/\/friends/, function (id) {
      //
      // Get the friends for the user with the specified `id`.
      //
    });
  });

Routing Events

In director, a "routing event" is a named property in the Routing Table which can be assigned to a function or an Array of functions to be called when a route is matched in a call to router.dispatch().

on: A function or Array of functions to execute when the route is matched.
before: A function or Array of functions to execute before calling the on method(s).

Client-side only

after: A function or Array of functions to execute when leaving a particular route.
once: A function or Array of functions to execute only once for a particular route.

Configuration

Given the flexible nature of director there are several options available for both the Client-side and Server-side. These options can be set using the .configure() method:

  var router = new director.Router(routes).configure(options);

The options are:

recurse: Controls route recursion. Use forward, backward, or false. Default is false Client-side, and backward Server-side.
strict: If set to false, then trailing slashes (or other delimiters) are allowed in routes. Default is true.
async: Controls async routing. Use true or false. Default is false.
delimiter: Character separator between route fragments. Default is /.
notfound: A function to call if no route is found on a call to router.dispatch().
on: A function (or list of functions) to call on every call to router.dispatch() when a route is found.
before: A function (or list of functions) to call before every call to router.dispatch() when a route is found.

Client-side only

resource: An object to which string-based routes will be bound. This can be especially useful for late-binding to route functions (such as async client-side requires).
after: A function (or list of functions) to call when a given route is no longer the active route.
html5history: If set to true and client supports pushState(), then uses HTML5 History API instead of hash fragments. See History API for more information.
run_handler_in_init: If html5history is enabled, the route handler by default is executed upon Router.init() since with real URIs the router can not know if it should call a route handler or not. Setting this to false disables the route handler initial execution.
convert_hash_in_init: If html5history is enabled, the window.location hash by default is converted to a route upon Router.init() since with canonical URIs the router can not know if it should convert the hash to a route or not. Setting this to false disables the hash conversion on router initialisation.

URL Matching

  var router = Router({
    //
    // given the route '/dog/yella'.
    //
    '/dog': {
      '/:color': {
        //
        // this function will return the value 'yella'.
        //
        on: function (color) { console.log(color) }
      }
    }
  });

Routes can sometimes become very complex, simple/:tokens don't always suffice. Director supports regular expressions inside the route names. The values captured from the regular expressions are passed to your listener function.

  var router = Router({
    //
    // given the route '/hello/world'.
    //
    '/hello': {
      '/(\\w+)': {
        //
        // this function will return the value 'world'.
        //
        on: function (who) { console.log(who) }
      }
    }
  });

  var router = Router({
    //
    // given the route '/hello/world/johny/appleseed'.
    //
    '/hello': {
      '/world/?([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)/?': function (a, b) {
        console.log(a, b);
      }
    }
  });

URL Parameters

When you are using the same route fragments it is more descriptive to define these fragments by name and then use them in your Routing Table or Adhoc Routes. Consider a simple example where a userId is used repeatedly.

``` js // // Create a router. This could also be director.cli.Router() or // director.http.Router(). // var router = new director.Router();

// // A route could be defined using the userId explicitly. // router.on(/([\w-_]+)/, function (userId) { });

// // Define a shorthand for this fragment called userId. // router.param('userId', /([\w\-]+)/);

// // Now multiple routes can be defined with the same // regular expression. // router.

Core symbols most depended-on inside this repo

createTest

called by 62

test/browser/helpers/api.js

assertRoute

called by 15

test/server/core/mount-test.js

assertBark

called by 5

test/server/http/http-test.js

testRoute

called by 5

test/server/core/regifystring-test.js

dlocHashEmpty

called by 4

lib/director/browser.js

callback

called by 4

test/server/core/regifystring-test.js

terminator

called by 3

lib/director/router.js

filterRoutes

called by 3

lib/director/router.js

Shape

Function 39

Languages

TypeScript100%

Modules by API surface

lib/director/router.js12 symbols

test/server/core/mount-test.js9 symbols

test/server/http/recursion-test.js3 symbols

test/server/http/methods-test.js2 symbols

test/server/core/regifystring-test.js2 symbols

lib/director/http/index.js2 symbols

lib/director/browser.js2 symbols

test/server/http/http-test.js1 symbols

test/server/http/attach-test.js1 symbols

test/server/core/on-test.js1 symbols

test/server/core/insert-test.js1 symbols

test/server/cli/path-test.js1 symbols

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