using Express in a Node project along with Typescript what would be the "best practices" for express.Router.
example directory structure
|directory_name
---server.js
|--node_modules
|--routes
---index.ts
|--admin
---admin.ts
|--products
---products.ts
|--authentication
---authentication.ts
so inside index.ts it would encapsulate and manage all the sub-routers
//admin.ts (nested inside of index.ts)
import * as express from "express";
export = (() => {
let router = express.Router();
router.get('/admin', (req, res) => {
res.json({success: true});
});
return router;
})();
//index.ts (master file for express.Router)
import * as express from "express";
//import sub-routers
import * as adminRouter from "./admin/admin";
import * as productRouter from "./products/products";
export = (() => {
let router = express.Router();
// mount express paths, any addition middleware can be added as well.
// ex. router.use('/pathway', middleware_function, sub-router);
router.use('/products', productRouter);
router.use('/admin', adminRouter);
//return for revealing module pattern
return router;
})(); //<--- this is where I don't understand something....
lastly we would set-up our server.js
//the usual node setup
//import * as *** http, body-parser, morgan, mongoose, express <-- psudocode
import * as masterRouter from './routes/index'
var app = express();
//set-up all app.use()
app.use('/api', masterRouter);
http.createServer(app).listen(8080, () => {
console.log('listening on port 8080')
};
my main question really is, is index.ts (masterRouter file) and it's nested routes that are IIFe's
export = (function(){})();
should that be the correct/best way to write typescript modules for routers?
or would it be better to use another pattern, perhaps one the utilizes the pattern
export function fnName() {} -- export class cName {} -- export default.
the reason for the IIFe is that when i import them into another file i won't need to initialize the module and there will only ever be 1 instance of each type of router.
