How do I build a URL from knowledge the Router has of all my routes?

[lukepuplett]

I come from a land of ASP.NET Core. Having fun learning a completely new stack.

I'm used to being able to:

a) name a route "orders"
b) give it a path like /customer-orders/{id}
c) register it
d) use the routing system to build a URL for my named route

An example of (d) might be to pass a routeName and then routeValues which is an object like { id = 193, x = "y" } and the routing system can figure out the URL /customer-orders/193?x=y - notice how it just appends extraneous key-vals as params.

Can I do something like this in oak?? Thanks.

[lukepuplett]

I am fortunately working with a React developer today!

Between us, we've found the .url(routeName, ...) method on the Router instance and that does exactly what I need!

Here's the help for it:

  /** Generate a URL pathname for a named route, interpolating the optional
   * params provided.  Also accepts an optional set of options. */

Here's it in use in context:

export const routes = new Router()
  .get(
    "get-test",
    "/test",
    handleGetTest,
  );

function handleGetTest(context: Context) {
  console.log(`The URL for the test route is: ${routes.url("get-test")}`);
}

// The URL for the test route is: /test