itty-router

Getting Started

1. Create a Router

Router(options?: RouterOptions): Proxy

Simple create a router using the Router() function. Please note that this is not a true JavaScript class, but rather a factory function returning a Proxy. As such, do not instantiate using the new keyword.

import { Router } from 'itty-router'

const router = Router() // no "new", as this is not a real class

2. Register Route(s)

router[method: string](route: string, ...handlers): Router

To define routes, call the lowercase matching HTTP method on the router object (e.g. ‘get’ for the GET HTTP method). Thanks to the underlying Proxy, any method (except ALL) can be mapped, allowing itty to be used in non-standard applications.

Standard route params, optional route params, wildcards, file formats, and even greedy params are supported within the core library. For full-manual control, see Advanced Usage.

// register a route on the "GET" method
router
  .get('/todos/:id', (request) => {
    const { params } = request

    return `You've asked for todo #${params.id}.`
  })

  // we can chain definitions to reduce boilerplate
  .get('*', () => error(404))

3. Handle Incoming Request

async router.handle(request: IRequest, ...args) => Promise

The router.handle method takes a Request-like argument and any additional arguments - then passes them to any matching routes. This process occurs in a linear loop fashion until anything at all is returned, from any handler/middleware, or the routes are exhausted (without a return). Each handler is awaited, allowing both syncronous and asynchronous handlers to work equally well.

NOTE: Requests in itty should have both a method and full url, but otherwise to not need to implement the full Request specification.

const request = new Request('https://foo.bar/todos/jane')

// attempt to match Request to registered routes
await router.handle(request)

// or a more robust handling
await router
        .handle(request)
        .then(json)       // transform all unformed responses to JSON
        .catch(error)     // and catch any uncaught errors