Express Routing

Reading materials

• using express routing
• express routing

Overview

It seems that routes in Express are a new(er) thing and that they represent a nice improvement from the previous way of doing things. With the context I have today, I'm not sure I see much difference.

Using the ExpressJS 4.0 Router from scotch.io

Some benefits that can be realized by using Routes. Most of these benefits are for organizational purposes:

• express.Router() can be called multiple times to define groups of routes.
• The app.route() is a shortcut to define multiple requests on a route
• And, the express.Router() can be applied to a whole section of a site using app.use()

Routing on ExpressJS.com

Routing passes a client's request from the URL to the server-side handler.

Route paths have some powerful features:

• URL path matching can be done by strings (standard) or by string patterns or by regular expressions
• Route handlers can be stacked. They can be listed as multiple arguments and/or provided in an array structure.
• route handlers can be specified in a modular chain, as applicable to a single path. This reduces code redundancy.