Express like Router Object

Hi, first of all, thank you very much for this project and for being so kind when replying to the issues here.

With express js, I use router objects outside the main server.js file; from this file I require all the router objects and apply them by using app.use('/prefix', routerObj).

My main concern is code organization but I don’t know if using router objects is the best way to do it with express.

Anyways, it seems restana does not implement a Router Object like express (does it?).

So, given all this, do you have any suggestions for code organization using restana?

Thank you!

[campie]

Hi @jkyberneees,

I’m closing this issue because everything is working!

Thank you for suggesting the middleware-if-unless module. It’s definitely useful for my use case.

Instead of using middleware-if-unless though, I have refactored my loadRoutes function so that every request handler function receives four arguments: app, path, middlewares (array) and context (an object into which I can inject a DB reference, for example).

routes/api/getAllUsers.js

module.exports = function (app, path, middlewares, context) {
    app.get(path, ...middlewares, (req, res) => {
        res.send(context.db.users.getAll())
    })
}

server.js

const restana = require('restana')
const loadRoutes = require('./lib/app/loadRoutes')
const connectDb = require('./db')
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const authMid = require('./middlewares/auth')
const limitById = require('./middlewares/limitById')

const run = async () => {

    const db = await connectDb()

    const context = {
        db
    }

    loadRoutes({
        app,
        folder: '/api',
        middlewares: [
            cookieParser(),
            authMid,
            limitById,
            bodyParser.json()
        ],
        context
    })

    loadRoutes({
        app,
        folder: '/auth',
        middlewares: [
            bodyParser.json()
        ],
        context
    })

    console.log(app.routes())

    app.start(process.env.APP_PORT)
}

run().catch(console.log)

I’m looking forward to playing with restana version 4.

Thank you very much for all you’ve been doing!

[jkyberneees]

You rock!