express-route-controller

This is a helper function to assign controller actions to routes in express.

It provides just a tiny bit of structure on top of a normal express app, but also doesn't get in the way at all, and you can continue to use express normally and define even more routes manually if you wish.

Usage:

In your express project install express-route-reverse-controller:

npm install express-route-reverse-controller

Now create a folder where you want all your controllers, eg. controllers, and add a file in there, named (for example) usersController.js. Then define it somehow, like so:

module.exports = {
    fetch: function(req, res) {
    },
    save: function(req, res) {
    },
    get: function(req, res) {
    }
};

In your main app.js file (or wherever you set up express routes normally) simply call the helper function (very sparse demo express app):

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var errc = require('express-route-reverse-controller');

// set up express route control:
errc(app, {
    controllers: __dirname + '/controllers',
    endpoints: {
        'fetch_users': { path: '/fetch_users', method: 'get', action: 'usersController#fetch'},
        'save_users': { path: '/save_users', method: 'post', action: 'usersController#save'},
        'get_user': { path: '/get_user/:id', method: 'get', action: 'usersController#get'}
    }
});

app.listen(3000);

You can make this even more easier, by defining your routes in a routes.json file, like so:

{
    'fetch_users': { path: '/fetch_users', method: 'get', action: 'usersController#fetch'},
    'save_users': { path: '/save_users', method: 'post', action: 'usersController#save'},
    'get_user': { path: '/get_user/:id', method: 'get', action: 'usersController#get'}
}

And loading the routes is as simple as:

...

errc(app, {
    controllers: __dirname + '/controllers',
    endpoints: require('routes.json')
});

...

From the view

<a href="<%= url('fetch_users') %>">Fetch Users</a>
<a href="<%= url('get_user', {id: 1234214}) %>">Get User Id 1234214</a>