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johnnyutah
johnnyutah

Reputation: 685

Redirecting multiple routes in express.js

I am working on an express app and am new to the framework. I have a few routes I'd like to redirect to one without doing something like:

var router = require("express").Router();

router.all("/route", function(req, res){
    res.redirect("/repetitive");
});

router.all("/route2", function(req, res){
    res.redirect("/repetitive");
});

This is a contrived example, but I'm looking for a way to have many routes redirect to /repetitive without writing lots of router.alls , but I don't see a way in the docs. Is passing a regex to router.all an option and if so is that the best practice for express? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2025

Answers (1)

JuniorCompressor
JuniorCompressor

Reputation: 20015

What about the following?

var r = function(req, res) {
    res.redirect("/repetitive");
}

var routes = ["/route", "/route2"];
for (var i in routes)
    router.all(routes[i], r);

or if names follow a regular expression pattern:

router.all(/\/route\d*/, function(req, res) {
    res.redirect("/repetitive");
});

The above will match "/route" optionally followed by a number.

Upvotes: 1

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