Calling Express Route internally from inside NodeJS

Question

I have an ExpressJS routing for my API and I want to call it from within NodeJS

var api = require(\'./routes/api\')
app.use(\'/api\', api);

Answer 1

I've made a dedicated middleware for this : uest.

Available within req it allows you to req.uest another route (from a given route).

It forwards original cookies to subsequent requests, and keeps req.session in sync across requests, for ex:

app.post('/login', async (req, res, next) => {
  const {username, password} = req.body

  const {body: session} = await req.uest({
    method: 'POST',
    url: '/api/sessions',
    body: {username, password}
  }).catch(next)

  console.log(`Welcome back ${session.user.firstname}!`

  res.redirect('/profile')
})

It supports Promise, await and error-first callback.

See the README for more details