Autoroute

Automatic router for simple REST json api

Autoroute will automatically create one or more Express router for you reading the content of your controller folder(s).

Installation

$ npm install @sagacify/autoroute

Usage

Import in your project

Create an instance

const { Autoroute } = require('@sagacify/autoroute');
const { Router } = require('express');
// OR
import { Autoroute } from '@sagacify/autoroute';
import { Router } from 'express';

const autoroute = new Autoroute(
  // Router class
  Router,
  // Mapping between controller actions & http verbs
  {
    exists: 'head',
    read: 'get',
    create: 'post',
    update: 'put',
    partial: 'patch',
    destroy: 'delete'
  },
  // Hooks
  {
    onRequest: ({ originalUrl, action, params, meta }) =>
      console.log({ originalUrl, action, params, meta })
    onResponse: ({ originalUrl, action, params, meta, result }) =>
      console.log({ originalUrl, action, params, meta, result })
  }
);

With this mapping Autoroute will look up for corresponding controller actions and create the following routes:

• HEAD /my-controller will call myController.exists(params, meta)
• HEAD /my-controller/:id will call myController.exists(params, meta)
• GET /my-controller will call myController.read(params, meta)
• GET /my-controller/:id will call myController.read(params, meta)
• POST /my-controller will call myController.create(params, meta)
• PUT /my-controller will call myController.update(params, meta)
• PUT /my-controller/:id will call myController.update(params, meta)
• PATCH /my-controller will call myController.partial(params, meta)
• PATCH /my-controller/:id will call myController.partial(params, meta)
• DELETE /my-controller will call myController.destroy(params, meta)
• DELETE /my-controller/:id will call myController.destroy(params, meta)

Options

• pattern (default: '**/*.js') controller file pattern to require, see: glob
• ignore (default: []) file pattern to ignore, useful to ignore '**/*.spec.js', see: glob
• onRequest (default: () => {}) hook called on request with these arguments { originalUrl, action, params, meta }
• onResponse (default: () => {}) hook called on response with these arguments { originalUrl, action, params, meta }

Create routers

  // Here we add req.user in meta parameter of controller actions methods
  const authRouter = autoroute.createRouter(path.join(__dirname, 'controllers/auth'), [ 'user' ]);
  const v1ApiRouter = autoroute.createRouter(path.join(__dirname, 'controllers/v1'));
  const v2ApiRouter = autoroute.createRouter(path.join(__dirname, 'controllers/v2'));

  const app = express();

  app.use('/auth', authRouter);
  app.use('/v1', authMiddleware, v1ApiRouter);
  app.use('/v2', authMiddleware, v2ApiRouter);

Expectation

Autoroute expect controller action's methods to have the following signature:

actionName(params: Object, meta: Object)

Exemple of controller implementation :

module.exports = {
  exists: async (params, meta) => { /* ... */ },
  read: async (params, meta) => { /* ... */ },
  create: async (params, meta) => { /* ... */ },
  update: async (params, meta) => { /* ... */ },
  partial: async (params, meta) => { /* ... */ },
  destroy: async (params, meta) => { /* ... */ },
  // This won't be mapped to a route
  internal: () => { /* ... */ }
};

Note: not all the methods need to be implemented

req.query, req.body, req.params will be merged in params (in this order). While meta will contains other req properties if specified in createRouter. meta will contain req.user here:

const authRouter = autoroute.createRouter(
  path.join(__dirname, 'controllers/auth'), [ 'user' ]
);

Npm scripts

Running code formating

$ npm run format

Running tests

$ npm test:spec

Running lint tests

$ npm test:lint

Running coverage tests

$ npm test:cover

This will create a coverage folder with all the report in coverage/index.html

Running all tests

$ npm test

Note: that's the one you want to use most of the time

Reporting bugs and contributing

If you want to report a bug or request a feature, please open an issue. If want to help us improve autoroute, fork and make a pull request. Please use commit format as described here. And don't forget to run npm run format before pushing commit.

Repository

• https://github.com/sagacify/autoroute

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2018 Sagacify

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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