powahroot

Client and server-side routing micro frameworks

Powahroot is a pair of micro routing frameworks, presented as an ES6 module:

• The first is for client-side single-page web applications
• The other is for handling server-side Node.js requests

It's based on rill (see the npm package bearing the name), but stripped down and simplified.

Getting Started

Install powahroot as a dependency with npm:

npm install --save powahroot

Then import the router you're after:

import { ServerRouter } from 'powahroot';

import { ClientRouter } from 'powahroot';

Usage

Paths

Powahroot supports multiple syntax bells and whistles when defining routes. These are documented below:

Syntax	Meaning
/index.html	Regular route. Matches exactly what it says on the tin.
*	Special key(word?) that matches any route. Must be present on its own without any other characters.
/add/vegetable/:name/:weight	Parameters. Match values an pull them into an object automatically. Does not like forward slashes in parameter values.
/images/::path	Parameter values with forward slashes. If you want to use parameters, but need values to be able to contain forward slashes /, this is for you. Don't forget you can mix-and-match this with the previous example!

Client

Initialise a new router like this:

const router = new ClientRouter({
	// Options object. Default settings:
	verbose: false, // Whether to be verbose in console.log() messages
	listen_pushstate: true, // Whether to react to browser pushstate events (excluding those generated by powahroot itself, because that would cause an infinite loop :P)
});

Server

The server router works slightly differently, to account for the different environment it's designed for. Here's how to use it:

const router = new ServerRouter();
router.on_all(async (context, next) => { console.debug(context.url); await next()})
router.get("/files/::filepath", (context, _next) => context.send.plain(200, `You requested ${context.params.filepath}`));
// .....

The context argument there is of type RouterContext. Check out the API reference (link below) to learn about the other useful properties it has.

Reference

TODO: Generate reference from code automatically

Licence

Everything in this repository except the logo is licenced under the _Mozilla Public License 2.0.

The logo itself is © Copyright Starbeamrainbowlabs 2019. All rights reserved - though you may use it when linking to this project (or to advertise usage in a 'powered by' logo).