How to configure dynamic routes with express.js
I would do the same thing you did for /modules/:name
app.get('/article/:id', function(req , res){
res.render('article' + req.params.id);
});
It would be more meaningful from a rest point of view.
If you cannot do it for any particular reason you might want to do something like:
var articlesEndpoints = ['/article2', '/article3'];
articlesEndpoints.forEach(function(name) {
app.get(name, function(req, res) {
res.render(name);
});
});
Is this what you meant?
Finally got it working..
In cases where I got, article1, article2 etc:
app.get('/:name(article|article2|article3)?', function(req, res) {
var name = req.params.name;
res.render(name);
});
In cases where I got multi level url, I created a custom function:
function geturl(url) {
app.get('/' + url + '/' + ':name', function(req, res){
var name = req.params.name;
res.render(url + '/' + name);
});
};
There are many ways to implement dynamic express routes. It depends to a great extent on the structure you have implemented in your project, here I leave an example of dynamic routes and I hope it will be useful.
RouterService.js
module.exports = (function(myCustomRoutes) {
let express = require('express');
let router = express.Router();
let methods = Object.keys(myCustomRoutes); // getting methods ('get', 'post'... etc)
let routesMethod = null;
let url = null;
for(i in methods) {
routesMethod = Object.keys(myCustomRoutes[methods[i]]);
for(j in routesMethod) {
url = '/' + routesMethod[j];
url += '/:' + myCustomRoutes[methods[i]][routesMethod[j]].params.join('/:');console.log(url);
router[methods[i]](url, myCustomRoutes[methods[i]][routesMethod[j]].controller);
}
}
return router;
})();
CustomRoutes.js
module.exports = (function() {
let routes = {get: {}, post: {}};
let routerService = require('./RouterService');
// GET: /dynamic1
routes.get.dynamic1 = {
params: [],
controller: function(req, res, next) {
res.send('route 1');
}
};
// GET: /dynamic2/:param1
routes.get.dynamic2 = {
params: [':param1'],
controller: function(req, res, next) {
res.send('route 2');
}
};
// POST: /dynamic3/:param1/:param1
routes.post.dynamic3 = {
params: ['param1', 'param2'],
controller: function(req, res, next) {
res.send('route 3');
}
};
/*
* Export a router with paths
* GET: /dynamic1
* GET: /dynamic2/:param1
* POST: /dynamic3/:param1/:param1
**/
return routerService(routes);
})();
app.js
let express = require('express');
let app = express();
/*
* Option 1
* GET: /dynamic1
* GET: /dynamic2/:param1
* POST: /dynamic3/:param1/:param1
**/
app.use(require('CustomRoutes')());
/*
* Option 2
* GET: /api/v1/dynamic1
* GET: /api/v1/dynamic2/:param1
* POST: /api/v1/dynamic3/:param1/:param1
**/
app.use('/api/v1', require('CustomRoutes')());