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Spices up your favorite routing library by adding type safety to plain string-based route definitions.

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Typesafe Routes

Enhance your preferred routing library by incorporating powerful path generation including:

  • Path & template rendering
  • Nested, absolute, and relative paths
  • Parameter parsing and serialization
  • Type-safe, customizable, and extendable
  • Also works with JavaScript (apart from type safety)

Example (Default Renderer)

import { createRoutes, int } from "typesafe-routes";

const routes = createRoutes({
  users: {
    path: ["users", int("uid")],    // /users/:uid
    children: {
      edit: { path: ["edit"] },     // /users/:uid/edit
      delete: { path: ["delete"] }, // /users/:uid/delete
    }
  }
});

// absolute paths
routes.users.$render({ path: { uid: 123 }}); // ~> "/users/123"

// nested paths
routes.users.edit.$render({ path: { uid: 123 }}); // ~> "/users/123/edit"
routes.users.delete.$render({ path: { uid: 123 }}); // ~> "/users/123/delete"

// relative paths ("_" indicates the starting segment)
routes._.users.$render({ path: { uid: 123 }}); // ~> "users/123"
routes.users._.edit.$render({}); // ~> "edit"

// parse path params
routes.users.edit.$parseParams({ uid: "42" }); // ~> { uid: 42 }
routes.users.edit.$parseParams("/users/99/edit"); // ~> { uid: 99 }

// templates 
routes.users.edit.$template(); // ~> "/users/:uid/edit"
routes._.users.edit.$template(); // ~> "users/:uid/edit"
routes.users._.edit.$template(); // ~> "edit"

// template examples with different custom renderers
routes.users.edit.$template(); // ~> "users/{:uid}/edit"
routes.users.show.$template(); // ~> ["users", "show", {name: "uid", type: "number"}]

Quick Reference

The complete documentation can be found here.

  • Methods
    • $render: renders a path with parameters
    • $template: renders a route template
    • $parseParams: parses dynamic segments in a path
    • $parseQuery: parses parameters in a search query
  • Chainable operators:
    • $bind: binds parameters to a path for later rendering
    • $from: creates a new path based on a string-based path (i.e. location.path)
    • $replace: replaces dynamic segments in a string-based path (i.e. location.path)

Installation

Version 12 is currently under development. Please don't use it in production yet. The official release will happen soon. The v10 documentation can be found here.

npm i typesafe-routes@next # or any npm alternative

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Roadmap

  • v12 migration guide
  • check for duplicate param names in the route tree
  • customizable parsing of search params (for example with qs)
  • demos & utils
    • react-router
    • refinejs
    • vue router
    • angular router

Docs

  • quickstart
  • basic-features
    • absolute-routes
    • parameters
    • nested-routes
    • relative-routes
    • route-templates
    • parameter-parsing
    • parameter-binding
    • parameter-types
  • advanced-features
    • extend-string-location
    • replace-dynamic-segments
    • global-query-parameters
  • customization
    • custom-parameter-types
    • custom-template-rendering
    • custom-path-rendering
  • tutorials
    • angular router
    • react router
    • vue router
    • refine