sym-router

sym-router is a lightweight, client-side routing library that allows you to create "single page" applications using Hashes or HTML5 pushState. It was originally forked from PathJS but has been completely rewritten.

npm install sym-router

Features

• Lightweight
• Supports the HTML5 History API, the 'onhashchange' method, and graceful degredation
• Supports root routes, rescue methods, paramaterized routes, optional route components (dynamic routes)
• Well Tested (tests available in the ./tests directory)
• Compatible with all major browsers (Tested on Firefox 25, Chrome 31, IE8, IE10)
• Independant of all third party libraries, but plays nice with all of them

Using sym-router - A Brief Example

var Path = require('sym-router');

function clearPanel(){
    // You can put some code in here to do fancy DOM transitions,
    // such as fade-out or slide-in.
}

Path.map("/users").to(function(){
    alert("Users!");
});

Path.map("/comments").to(function(){
    alert("Comments!");
}).exit(clearPanel);

Path.map("/posts").to(function(){
    alert("Posts!");
}).exit(clearPanel);

Path.listen();

Running Tests

Make sure all dependencies are installed first:

npm install

To run the tests, use npm test to test the routing and routes. For the actual browser history tests, build the JS files with: make and run python -m SimpleHTTPServer. Open the html files in http://10.0.2.2:8000/tests/browser. Everything should go to green eventually.

If you're on Windows, just run the commands in the Makefile manually.