FlowRouter Extra

Carefully extended flow-router package. FlowRouter is a very simple router for Meteor.js. It does routing for client-side apps and compatible with React, Vue, Svelte, and Blaze.

It exposes a great API for changing the URL and getting data from the URL. However, inside the router, it's not reactive. Most importantly, FlowRouter is designed with performance in mind and it focuses on what it does best: routing.

Features:

• 📦 Not dependent on Blaze, ready for React.js and other templating/components engines/libs;
• 📦 No underscore package dependency;
• 👨‍💻 TypeScript definition types.d.ts
• 👨‍🔬 Great tests coverage;
• 🥑 Up-to-date dependencies;
• 📦 Support of Fast Render and other great packages;
• 📋 Following semver with regular releases;
• 📋 Great wiki;
• 📋 Great quick start tutorial.

Install

meteor add ostrio:flow-router-extra

ES6 Import

import { FlowRouter } from 'meteor/ostrio:flow-router-extra';
// Full list of available classes and instances:
// { FlowRouter, Router, Route, Group, Triggers, BlazeRenderer, RouterHelpers }

Usage

import { FlowRouter } from 'meteor/ostrio:flow-router-extra';

// DISABLE QUERY STRING COMPATIBILITY
// WITH OLDER FlowRouter AND Meteor RELEASES
FlowRouter.decodeQueryParamsOnce = true;

FlowRouter.route('/', {
  name: 'index',
  action() {
    // Render a template using Blaze
    this.render('templateName');

    // Can be used with BlazeLayout,
    // and ReactLayout for React-based apps
  }
});

// Create 404 route (catch-all)
FlowRouter.route('*', {
  action() {
    // Show 404 error page using Blaze
    this.render('notFound');

    // Can be used with BlazeLayout,
    // and ReactLayout for React-based apps
  }
});

NOTE: If you're using TypeScript, FlowRouter supports it. For types to work you need to install and follow the instructions of zodern:meteor-types if you haven't done it already.

Documentation

• Continue with our wiki;
• Quick start tutorial;
• All docs as single document.

Related packages:

• ostrio:flow-router-title - Reactive page title (document.title)
• ostrio:flow-router-meta - Per route meta tags, script and link (CSS), set per-route stylesheets and scripts
• communitypackages:fast-render - Fast Render can improve the initial load time of your app, giving you 2-10 times faster initial page loads. fast-render integration tutorial
• communitypackages:inject-data - This is the package used by fast-render to push data to the client with the initial HTML
• flean:flow-router-autoscroll - Autoscroll for Flow Router
• mealsunite:flow-routing-extra - Add-on for User Accounts
• nxcong:flow-routing - Add-on for User Accounts (alternative)
• forwarder:autoform-wizard-flow-router-extra - Flow Router bindings for AutoForm Wizard
• nicolaslopezj:router-layer - Helps package authors to support multiple routers
• krishaamer:flow-router-breadcrumb - Easy way to add a breadcrumb with enough flexibility to your project (flow-router-extra edition)
• krishaamer:body-class - Easily scope CSS by automatically adding the current template and layout names as classes on the body element

Running Tests

1. Clone this package
2. In Terminal (Console) go to directory where package is cloned
3. Then run:

Meteor/Tinytest

# Default
meteor test-packages ./

# With custom port
meteor test-packages ./ --port 8888

# With local MongoDB and custom port
MONGO_URL="mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/flow-router-tests" meteor test-packages ./ --port 8888

Support this project:

• Sponsor via GitHub
• Support via PayPal — support my open source contributions once or on regular basis
• Use ostr.io — Monitoring, Analytics, WebSec, Web-CRON and Pre-rendering for a website