section3.14.md

Section 3.14: Named routes in Django-style

One big problem is that valuable named routes is not supported by Express out of the box. Solution is to install supported third-party package, for example express-reverse:

npm install express-reverse

Plug it in your project:

let app = require('express')();
require('express-reverse')(app);

// Then use it like:
app.get('test', '/hello', function(req, res) {
  res.end('Hello Morol');
});

The downside of this approach is that you cant use route Express module as shown in Advanced router usage. The workaround is to pass your app as a parameter to you router factory:

require('./middlewares/routing')(app);

// And use it like:
module.exports = (app) => {
  app.get('test', '/hello', function(req, res) {
    res.end('Hello Morol');
  });
};