Best way to do dynamic routing with Express.js (node.js)

Question

I\'m trying to create a simple CMS with express.js that dynamically creates routes. It gets a JSON from a database that looks like this:

pagesfromdb = {
             


        

Answer 1

Adding routes can be done on the fly, as mentioned. Deleting can too, given this fuction:

function deleteRoute(url) {
  for (var i = app.routes.get.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    if (app.routes.get[i].path === "/" + url) {
      app.routes.get.splice(i, 1);
    }
  }
}

(stolen from Removing a specfic mapped route in Node.js at runtime removes static mapping?)

Updating routes like this does make your app "stateful", and will probably lead to a problems if you need load balance.