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8-Nodejs Course 2023: Updating Router Layer

#node #typescript #mongodb #fastify

So what we did in our last article is creating a Router layer over Fastify to manage routes, let's continue with that.

Singleton and Encapsulation

We imported our router object in the index like this:

import Router from './router';

const router = Router.getInstance();
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We can do a simple step to make it easier to import the router without having to get the getInstance each time.

import { Route } from "./types";

export class Router {
  /**
   * Routes list
   */
  private routes: Route[] = [];

  /**
   * Router Instance
   */
  private static instance: Router;

  /**
   * Get router instance
   */
  public static getInstance() {
    if (!Router.instance) {
      Router.instance = new Router();
    }

    return Router.instance;
  }

  private constructor() {
    //
  }

  /**
   * Add get request method
   *
   * // Method chaining
   */
  public get(path: string, handler: any) {
    this.routes.push({
      method: "GET",
      path,
      handler,
    });

    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Register routes to the server
   */
  public scan(server: any) {
    this.routes.forEach(route => {
      const requestMethod = route.method.toLowerCase();
      const requestMethodFunction = server[requestMethod].bind(server);

      requestMethodFunction(route.path, route.handler);
    });
  }
}

// 👇🏻 we will create it internally here
const router = Router.getInstance();

// 👇🏻 now we export it directly
export default router;
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Adding more methods

We will add more methods to our router, we will add post, put, delete and patch methods.

import { Route } from "./types";

export class Router {
  /**
   * Routes list
   */
  private routes: Route[] = [];

  /**
   * Router Instance
   */
  private static instance: Router;

  /**
   * Get router instance
   */
  public static getInstance() {
    if (!Router.instance) {
      Router.instance = new Router();
    }

    return Router.instance;
  }

  private constructor() {
    //
  }

  /**
   * Add get request method
   */
  public get(path: string, handler: any) {
    this.routes.push({
      method: "GET",
      path,
      handler,
    });

    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add post request method
   */
  public post(path: string, handler: any) {
    this.routes.push({
      method: "POST",
      path,
      handler,
    });

    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add put request method
   */
  public put(path: string, handler: any) {
    this.routes.push({
      method: "PUT",
      path,
      handler,
    });

    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add delete request method
   */
  public delete(path: string, handler: any) {
    this.routes.push({
      method: "DELETE",
      path,
      handler,
    });

    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Add patch request method
   */
  public patch(path: string, handler: any) {
    this.routes.push({
      method: "PATCH",
      path,
      handler,
    });

    return this;
  }

  /**
   * Register routes to the server
   */
  public scan(server: any) {
    this.routes.forEach(route => {
      const requestMethod = route.method.toLowerCase();
      const requestMethodFunction = server[requestMethod].bind(server);

      requestMethodFunction(route.path, route.handler);
    });
  }
}

const router = Router.getInstance();

export default router;
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Nothing new here, just added the same code for each method.

Getting all routes list

We will add a method to get all routes list, we can use it in debugging or testing.

import { Route } from "./types";
// ...

  /**
   * Get all routes list
   */
  public list() {
    return this.routes;
  }
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And that's it, we are now ready to add any route we want to our server, also we can get it from anywhere in our code.

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