Design more powerful routing DSL

[charypar]

The routing API we have now is based on page.js, but it is quite limited. It served us well, but we might want to start thinking about a more extensive DSL, something similar to what Ruby on Rails does, perhaps?

[cpursley]

I'm not sure if it would be the right fit for Arch, but I'd love to see a similar state-based approach and DSL that Angular ui-router uses, which I believe was influenced by the router used in the Ember framework. Looks like WebRx is taking this approach. Perhaps it could be abstracted out for usage with Arch.

[charypar]

@cpursley I think we had something vaguely similar in mind for route changes controlled from code. You'd just write a route into the app state. The state machine style transition restriction is quite an interesting concept, we might want to explore that.

But mostly I meant just a basic URL matching definition by this - i.e. limit the possible value of a dynamic route segment, use regular expressions, etc. The reason for needing our own is it needs to work isomorphically, so that's a little challenging.

Either way, thanks very much for the links!

[cpursley]

Sure, that makes sense.