fastify-router

A simple router loader for fastify servers.

Warning, this is junky. But hey, if it works, don't fix it! (actual suggestions are welcome :p) Please note I use this for my personal projects, its not meant to be fast, efficient or smart and certinaly wasn't designed to be used in production. I created this so I don't have to setup routes with every new webserver I create and I couldn't find anything on fastify that did this. It saves time :D

Read through this entire document for instructions on how to use this!

Installation

Install via NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/package/fastifyrouter.js) npm i fastifyrouter.js

Use

Here's how to use this tool

On your webserver setup file

Call the loadRoutes function, inject fastify and options and voila!

import { loadRoutes } from '/path/to/index.mjs'
//or from npm
import { loadRoutes } from 'fastifyrouter.js';

//Example fastify server 
import Fastify from 'fastify';
const fastify = Fastify();

await loadRoutes(fastify, { dir: './src/routes/', log: true, method: 'GET', prefix: '/home' });

Options:

• dir: the directory of all the routes you want to load, its using the current module dir so if the module is in node_modules/blah and your routes in src/routes, you will have to set it as ../src/routes
• log: log to console some debug/verbose messages [optional]
• method: which method to use as a default (if one not defined in the file name) [optional]
• prefix: add a prefix to the path. if you are using a folder organization structure, the prefix will not be included by default, so we add this option to mitage this (see issue #3)

On your route file

Export a default (async) function with two properties: request & reply (as fastify does)

export default async function (request, reply) {
    return reply.send({ hello: 'world' });
};

Paths, params, queries, etc (Folder structure)

I basically go by the principal that the folder path is also your path. files named index will be treated as the end/trail of that path. So if you want to render the page /path/to/page you will have a folder structure of /src/routes/path/to/page/index.js or /src/routes/path/to/page.js depends on how you want to organize things :)

For params, because on windows you can't use : for file names instead I do []. So lets say you have param people you will define it in a path like this: /path/to/[people]/index.js -> /path/to/:people/

Queries are handled by fastify already, you don't have to do special definitions.

But what about REST?

All routes MUST contain the rest method in the file name, followed by a - and the path. example: GET-index.js, POST-index.js, SET-index.js etc. If the a method does NOT contain one, it will use the default method you set in the options. (if none is set, it will use GET) I can not verify if ANY/ALL works, as my results are inconclusive. If you can replicate/use, please make an issue request so I can remove this statement :)

Contributing:

• By code: Make a pr! Add comments to your code and have proper variable names!
• By suggestions/bugs: Make an issue request! Have as many details as you can so I can replicate and fix!
• By donating: