Webster Router

An easy-to-use, file-based router to Elysia

Usage

Register Plugin

To use Webster in your Elysia app, register it on your Elysia instance.

import { Elysia } from "elysia";
import { webster } from "webster-router";

const app = new Elysia()
  .use(
    webster({
      dir: "./src/my-routes", // uses src/routes by default
    })
  )
  .listen(3000);

Creating a route

// routes/index.ts
import type { Route } from "webster-router";

export const get: Route = {
  handler: () => "Hello, Webster!",
};

Routes are defined as variables whose names are HTTP verbs. If you're using TypeScript, make sure to import the Route type. This means that one route file can handle multiple methods

export const get: Route = {
  handler: () => "Hello, Webster!",
};

export const delete: Route = {
  handler: () => "Bye, Webster. :(",
};

Each route is passed an Elysia Context

export const get: Route = {
  handler: (context) => context.path,
};

To define a schema, add a schema property to a method object, and define the schema the same way you would in a normal Elysia app

import { t } from 'elysia'

export const get: Route = {
  schema: {
    query: t.Object({
      name: t.String()
    })
  }
  handler: (context) => context.path,
};

Dynamic Routes

To create a dynamic route, create a folder with the :<parameter-name> format. For example, if we want to create a path that takes in an id parameter, we'd create a folder called :id. Elysia will put the id value in context.params

export const get: Route = {
  handler: ({ params }) => {
    return params.id;
  },
};

Now, if we visit /123, we will see '123' returned back to us.