Description
Crossroads.js is a routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc...
It parses a string input and decides which action should be executed by matching the string against multiple patterns.
If used properly it can reduce code complexity by decoupling objects and also by abstracting navigation paths.
See project page for documentation and more details.
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README
Introduction
Crossroads.js is a routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc... It parses a string input and decides which action should be executed by matching the string against multiple patterns.
If used properly it can reduce code complexity by decoupling objects and also by abstracting navigation paths.
See project page for documentation and more details.
Links
Dependencies
This library requires JS-Signals to work.
License
Distribution Files
Files inside dist
folder.
- crossroads.js : Uncompressed source code with comments.
- crossroads.min.js : Compressed code.
You can install Crossroads on Node.js using NPM
npm install crossroads
Repository Structure
Folder Structure
dev -> development files
|- lib -> 3rd-party libraries
|- src -> source files
|- tests -> unit tests
dist -> distribution files
Branches
master -> always contain code from the latest stable version
release-** -> code canditate for the next stable version (alpha/beta)
dev -> main development branch (nightly)
gh-pages -> project page
**other** -> features/hotfixes/experimental, probably non-stable code
Building your own
This project uses Node.js for the build process. If for some reason you need to build a custom version install Node.js and run:
node build
This will delete all JS files inside the dist
folder, merge/update/compress source files and copy the output to the dist
folder.
IMPORTANT: dist
folder always contain the latest version, regular users should not need to run build task.
Running unit tests
On the browser
Open dev/tests/spec_runner-dist.html
on your browser.
spec_runner-dist
tests dist/crossroads.js
and spec_runner-dev
tests files inside
dev/src
- they all run the same specs.
On Node.js
Install npm and run:
npm install --dev
npm test
Each time you run npm test
the files inside the dist
folder will be updated
(it executes node build
as a pretest
script).
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the crossroads README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.