Router middleware for koa

• Express-style routing using app.get, app.put, app.post, etc.
• Named URL parameters and regexp captures.
• String or regular expression route matching.
• Named routes with URL generation.
• Responds to OPTIONS requests with allowed methods.
• Support for 405 Method Not Allowed and 501 Not Implemented.
• Multiple route middleware.
• Multiple routers.

Install using npm:

npm install koa-router

• koa-router
  • Router() ⏏
    • .get|put|post|patch|delete ⇒ Router
    • .routes ⇒ function
    • .use(middleware, [...]) ⇒ Router
    • .allowedMethods([options]) ⇒ function
    • .all(name, path, [middleware], callback) ⇒ Router
    • .redirect(source, destination, code) ⇒ Router
    • .route(name) ⇒ Route | false
    • .url(name, params) ⇒ String | Error
    • .param(param, middleware) ⇒ Router

Create a new router.

Example
Basic usage:

var app = require('koa')();
var router = require('koa-router')();

router.get('/', function *(next) {...});

app
  .use(router.routes())
  .use(router.allowedMethods());

Or if you prefer to extend the app with router methods:

var app = require('koa')();
var router = require('koa-router');

app
  .use(router(app))
  .get('/', function *(next) {...});

Create router.verb() methods, where verb is one of the HTTP verbes such as router.get() or router.post().

Match URL patterns to callback functions or controller actions using router.verb(), where verb is one of the HTTP verbs such as router.get() or router.post().

router
  .get('/', function *(next) {
    this.body = 'Hello World!';
  })
  .post('/users', function *(next) {
    // ...
  })
  .put('/users/:id', function *(next) {
    // ...
  })
  .del('/users/:id', function *(next) {
    // ...
  });

Route paths will be translated to regular expressions used to match requests.

Query strings will not be considered when matching requests.

Routes can optionally have names. This allows generation of URLs and easy renaming of URLs during development.

router.get('user', '/users/:id', function *(next) {
 // ...
});

router.url('user', 3);
// => "/users/3"

Multiple middleware may be given and are composed using koa-compose:

router.get(
  '/users/:id',
  function *(next) {
    this.user = yield User.findOne(this.params.id);
    yield next;
  },
  function *(next) {
    console.log(this.user);
    // => { id: 17, name: "Alex" }
  }
);

Named route parameters are captured and added to ctx.params.

router.get('/:category/:title', function *(next) {
  console.log(this.params);
  // => [ category: 'programming', title: 'how-to-node' ]
});

Run middleware for named route parameters. Useful for auto-loading or validation.

router
  .param('user', function *(id, next) {
    this.user = users[id];
    if (!this.user) return this.status = 404;
    yield next;
  })
  .get('/users/:user', function *(next) {
    this.body = this.user;
  })

Control route matching exactly by specifying a regular expression instead of a path string when creating the route. For example, it might be useful to match date formats for a blog, such as /blog/2013-09-04:

router.get(/^\/blog\/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\/?$/i, function *(next) {
  // ...
});

Capture groups from regular expression routes are added to ctx.captures, which is an array.

Returns router middleware which dispatches a route matching the request.

Use given middleware(s) before route callback.

Example

router.use(session(), authorize());

// runs session and authorize middleware before routing
app.use(router.routes());

Returns separate middleware for responding to OPTIONS requests with an Allow header containing the allowed methods, as well as responding with 405 Method Not Allowed and 501 Not Implemented as appropriate.

router.allowedMethods() is automatically mounted if the router is created with app.use(router(app)). Create the router separately if you do not want to use .allowedMethods(), or if you are using multiple routers.

Example

var app = koa();
var router = router();

app.use(router.routes());
app.use(router.allowedMethods());

Register route with all methods.

Redirect source to destination URL with optional 30x status code.

Both source and destination can be route names.

router.redirect('/login', 'sign-in');

This is equivalent to:

router.all('/login', function *() {
  this.redirect('/sign-in');
  this.status = 301;
});

Lookup route with given name.

Generate URL for route. Takes either map of named params or series of arguments (for regular expression routes).

router.get('user', '/users/:id', function *(next) {
 // ...
});

router.url('user', 3);
// => "/users/3"

router.url('user', { id: 3 });
// => "/users/3"

Run middleware for named route parameters. Useful for auto-loading or validation.

Example

router
  .param('user', function *(id, next) {
    this.user = users[id];
    if (!this.user) return this.status = 404;
    yield next;
  })
  .get('/users/:user', function *(next) {
    this.body = this.user;
  })

Please submit all issues and pull requests to the alexmingoia/koa-router repository!

Run tests using npm test.

If you have any problem or suggestion please open an issue here.