is it possible to name routes in Express.js

Question

Basic route is like this:

app.get(\'/\', function(req, res){
  res.send(\'hello world\');
});

Is it possible to name that route and have it

Answer 1

I found express-reverse to nicely solve this issue

https://github.com/dizlexik/express-reverse

It augments the standard routing allowing you to pass the route's name as first argument

app.get('test', '/hello/:x', function(req, res, next) {
    res.end('hello ' + req.params.x);
});

Let you build the url from inside a template by name

Test

Let you redirect to an url by name

app.get('/test-redirect', function(req, res, next) {
    res.redirectToRoute('test', { x: 'world' });
});