The Way

A tiny (zero dependency) isomorphic router for browsers & servers.

• History & Hash based routing for browser
• Server-side (express style) routing (req,res,next) & middleware
• Simple Static file server
• Support for layouts

Install

npm install theway

Usage

// app.js
import Way from 'theway'
import {
  loadRoute,
} from 'theway/utils.js'

const router = new Way('/');

export const createApp = (entrypoint, routeBase) => router
  .use("/", loadRoute('/path/to/route/home.js', 'home'))
  .use(
    "/about",
    loadRoute('/path/to/route/about.js', 'about'),
  )
  .use(
    "/thing/*?",
    loadRoute('/path/to/route/thing.js', 'thing'),
  )
  .use(
    "/compare/:crypto?/:fiat?",
    loadRoute('/path/to/route/compare.js', 'compare'),
  )

export default createApp

// main.js - browser
import createApp from './app.js'

let app = createApp(
  document.querySelector('#app')
)

app.listen();

// server.js
import http from 'node:http'
import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
import { join, extname } from 'node:path'

import createApp from './app.js'

import {
  DOMFaker,
  serveStaticFiles,
} from 'theway/server.js'

const BASE = /<base href="([\s\S]+?)" \/>/ig
const routeBase = import.meta?.dirname + '/routes/'
const theWaySrcDir = join(import.meta.dirname, '../../')
const entryPage = readFileSync('./index.html', 'utf8').replace(BASE, '')
const fakeDOM = DOMFaker(`<main id="app"></main>`, entryPage)

const httpServer = http.createServer();

const app = createApp(
  fakeDOM,
  routeBase,
)

app
  .get("/api/users", async ({params}, res, next) => {
    try {
      let req = await fetch(
        'https://dummyjson.com/users?limit=3&select=firstName,age',
        {
          headers: {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json',
          },
        }
      )

      if (req.ok) {
        let users = await req.text()

        if (users) {
          console.log('router get /api/users', params, users)

          return res.json(users)
        }
      }
    } catch (err) {
      next(err)
    }

    next('failed to retrieve users data')
  })
  .use(serveStaticFiles(join(import.meta.dirname, '../')))

httpServer.on('request', app.listen);

httpServer.listen(8080, () => {
  console.log('Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8080');
});

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Special Thanks

Originally forked from NavAid, but with significant changes.