🐉 Dragon Router

Kyle West's JavaScript Master Project

Why make a router?

Don't those already exist?

Neither app-route or PageJS could do this:

History API

The backbone of SPA

window.history

pop

Browser Back/Fwd

push

Navigation Evt
window.history
Navigation Evt
Browser Back/Fwd
// "push" a new entry onto the history stack
history.pushState({ data }, "Page Title", "/page")

// edits "top" entry in history stack
history.replaceState({ data }, "Page 2", "/page")

// "pops" to an entry in the history stack
history.back()
hisory.forward()
history.go(-1)

push

pop

window.addEventListener('pop', (e) => {
  if (e.state) { // truthy only thru History API
    handleRoute(e.state)
  }
  // else - default behavior
})
window.addEventListener('pop', (e) => {
  // only handle route if we were the ones who owned it
  if (e.state && e.state.routerId === this.routerId) {
    handleRoute(e.state)
  }
})

Is that it?

// Missing PID & Orientation
page('/pedigree', () => { 
  /* redirect to /pedigree/:defaultOrientation */
});

// Missing Orientation
page(`/pedigree/:pid(<PID-RegExp>)`, () => {
  /* redirect to /pedigree/:defaultOrientation/:pid */
});

// Missing PID
page(`/pedigree/:orientation(<Orientation-RegExp>)`, () => {
  /* redirect to /pedigree/:orientation/:startingPid */
});

// handle the fully qualified /:view/:orientation/:pid route
page(`/pedigree/:orientation(<Orientation-RegExp>)/:pid(<PID-RegExp>)`, 
  () => { /* ... */})
// fetch our default values in a callback
router.use(new DerivedSubpath('orientation', () => 'landscape'));
router.use(new DerivedSubpath('pid', async () => 'STRT-PID'));

// handle the fully qualified /:view/:orientation/:pid route
router.use(`/pedigree/$:orientation(<Orientation-RegExp>)/$:pid(<PID-RegExp>)`, 
  () => { /* ... */})

What else?

Niceties 

  • Built in debug mode
  • DerivedSubpaths
  • Composable exports
  • 40% size of PageJS

Compatibility

  • ?, *, [], and regex routes
  • global/local middleware
  • Works with WebComps
  • Works with React
  • ES6+ Importable
  • ES2015 & Global Scope

🖥 DEMO

Dragon Router

By Kyle West

Dragon Router

This is the presentation for my Skill Building JavaScript Master Badge Project.

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