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Eric Uldall
Eric Uldall

Reputation: 2391

Encapsulate Express Routers

Is it possible to create different routers using Express.Router that don't share middleware?

To me it seems that Express.Router uses a singleton, so no matter what I try, the middleware gets attached to all routers. So, without having to create multiple instances of the Express app, is there a way to achieve the following:

Create mutliple routers

var router_a = Express.Router();
var router_b = Express.Router();

Give each router unique routes and middleware

router_a.use(function(req, res, next){
    console.log('Only works on router_a!');
});
router_a.get('/', function(req, res){
    console.log('Only works on router_a!');
});

router_b.use(function(req, res, next){
    console.log('Only works on router_b!');
});
router_b.get('/', function(req, res){
    console.log('Only works on router_b!');
});

Attach each route to a custom url namespace

app.use('/a', router_a);
app.use('/b', router_b);

Is there a straight forward way to achieve this? After reading through the docs on the Router I don't see anything that suggests such is possible.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1119

Answers (1)

jfriend00
jfriend00

Reputation: 707416

The one thing I see missing from your code is the call the next() in your middleware. If I add that to your code, it works perfectly fine for me.

The /b middleware is only called if the route starts with /b and same for the /a middleware with /a routes. And, to finish your code, you also have to send a response in your .get() handlers.

Here's the specific code I just tested:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

var server = app.listen(80);

app.use(express.static('public'));

var router_a = express.Router();
var router_b = express.Router();

router_a.use(function(req, res, next){
    console.log('.use() - Only works on router_a!');
    next();
});
router_a.get('/', function(req, res){
    console.log('.get() - Only works on router_a!');
    res.send("router a, / route");
});

router_b.use(function(req, res, next){
    console.log('.use() - Only works on router_b!');
    next();
});
router_b.get('/', function(req, res){
    console.log('.get() - Only works on router_b!');
    res.send("router b, / route");
});

app.use('/a', router_a);
app.use('/b', router_b);

Upvotes: 1

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