Possibility to use choo without routing/router

Expected behavior

When working in a hybrid, microservice routing environment, I should just mount the specific route (e.g. after code split) without using the any (or pushstate) router. Express is now a source of truth for router.

Actual behavior

When working in a hybrid, microservice routing environment, I need to double up for express router instead letting express hit the route with name-of-route.js script. Express isn’t now a source of truth for router.

I could not find answer to that in any documentation bit so far, hence the question. Is it possible? It is because we have a higher level routing solution routing the site to many different places, places using different technologies that only share the theme, and are microservices essentially.

[graforlock]

@bcomnes @jonjaques If anyone’s interested, a wrapper to allow just that:

https://github.com/graforlock/choo-detached

[jonjaques]

Can’t you just do something like this?

const app = Choo({history: false})
module.exports = app

app.route(window.location.href, mainView)
if (global.document) {
  app.mount(...)
}

function mainView(state, emit) {
  switch(state.cond) {
    case 'a': return html``
    case ...
  }
}

That way it won’t listen for or try to pushState on links, just a full page reload. If you want to switch views, just do so via state. If it’s 4kb minified, seems like the 1-2 kb you would save by decoupling the router isn’t the most pressing concern.