Global prefix for a module / route tree

Hi,

there is an older issue, which got implemented: https://github.com/nestjs/nest/issues/40 - allowing to setGlobalPrefix('api') on the app instance.

This is a very neat feature and since I’m looking to create some sort of a “route tree”, it would be great to set some “route extending strategy”.

Say I want to create a route tree like this: -> api (from app.setGlobalPrefix) –> /users (UsersModule with prefix ‘users’ for all of it’s ‘children’ modules and controllers) —> /posts (PostsModule with prefix ‘posts’ for all of it’s ‘children’ modules and controllers) ----> /comments (Now I could declare a CommentsController with route ‘comments’ and this controller’s route would be composed from all of the ancestors above, in this case: ‘api/users/posts/comments’ ----> /upvotes (this one would then be ‘api/users/posts/upvotes’)

that means I’d like to somehow set the ‘module route prefix’ for all of it’s children’s modules & controllers.

If there’s already a way to achieve this, please point me in the right direction, otherwise it would be pretty nice to have this.

Thanks

[br0wn]

@VinceOPS This is how we’ve done it so far

async function bootstrap() {
    const server = express();
    const config = require('../../etc/config.js');

    const apiFactory = new NestFactoryStatic();
    const api = await apiFactory.create(ApiModule, server);
    api.setGlobalPrefix("/api/v1");
    await api.init();

    const adminFactory = new NestFactoryStatic();
    const admin = await adminFactory.create(AdminModule, server);
    admin.setGlobalPrefix("/admin");
    await admin.init();

    http.createServer(server).listen(config.server.port);
}

bootstrap();

[wbhob]

I’ve opened a PR. This is sort of what we’re talking about, but in a more nest-friendly way. My intended usage is like this:

@Module({
    path: '/child-route'
})
export class MyChildModule { }

Essentially, at runtime, it reflects the parent module’s paths back onto each controller.