lqdchrm/navigo

A simple vanilla JavaScript router.

Navigo

A simple dependency-free minimalistic JavaScript router

• v.8+ documentation
• v.7 documentation
• Examples
• Changelog
• Using React? Checkout navigo-react package.
• 🎮 Online playground here codesandbox.io/s/navigo-example-jrui8;

• Navigo
  • Selling points
  • Installation
  • Quick start
  • Development
  • Building
  • Tests
  • MISC

Selling points

• Dependency free
• ~10KB minified, ~4KB gzipped
• Based on History API so it does update the URL of the page
• Supports hash based routing too
• Simple mapping of route to a function call
• Parameterized routes
• Navigating between routes
• Hooks (before, after, leave, already)
• Not-found and default handler
• Easy integration with HTML links via data-navigo HTML attribute

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Installation

Drop the following into your page:

<script src="//unpkg.com/navigo"></script>

or via npm/yarn:

> npm install navigo --save
> yarn add navigo -S

Quick start

import Navigo from 'navigo'; // When using ES modules.

const router = new Navigo('/');

The constructor of the library accepts a single argument - the root path of your app. If you host your project at https://site.com/my/awesome/app, your root path is /my/awesome/app. Then you have to define your routes.

router.on('/my/awesome/app', function () {
  // do something
});

At the end you have to trigger the resolving logic:

router.resolve();

After that when you need a page change call the navigate method. This one changes the URL and (by default) triggers resolve.

router.navigate('/about');

Add data-navigo attribute to your page links and they'll be transformed into navigate callers.

<a href="/about/contacts" data-navigo>Contacts</a>

Checkout the online playground to see it in action.

Development

> yarn dev

Building

> yarn build

Tests

> yarn test
> yarn test-watch

MISC

• A modern JavaScript router in 100 lines