matchit

Quickly parse & match URLs

Install

$ npm install --save matchit

Usage

const { exec, match, parse } = require('matchit');

parse('/foo/:bar/:baz?');
//=> [
//=>   { old:'/foo/:bar', type:0, val:'foo' },
//=>   { old:'/foo/:bar', type:1, val:'bar' },
//=>   { old:'/foo/:bar', type:3, val:'baz' }
//=> ]

const routes = ['/', '/foo', 'bar', '/baz', '/baz/:title','/bat/*'].map(parse);

match('/', routes);
//=> [{ old:'/', type:0, val:'/' }]

match('/foo', routes);
//=> [{ old:'/foo', type:0, val:'foo' }]

match('/bar', routes);
//=> [{ old:'bar', type:0, val:'bar' }]

match('/baz', routes);
//=> [{ old:'/baz', type:0, val:'baz' }]

let a = match('/baz/hello', routes);
//=> [{...}, {...}]
let b = exec('/baz/hello', a);
//=> { title:'hello' }

match('/bat/quz/qut', routes);
//=> [
//=>   { old:'/bat/*', type:0, val:'bat' },
//=>   { old:'/bat/*', type:2, val:'*' }
//=> ]

API

matchit.parse(route)

Returns: Array

The route is split and parsed into a "definition" array of objects. Each object ("segment") contains a val, type, and old key:

• old — The route's original value
• type — An numerical representation of the segment type.
  • 0 - static
  • 1 - parameter
  • 2 - any/wildcard
  • 3 - optional param
• val — The current segment's value. This is either a static value of the name of a parameter

route

Type: String

A single URL pattern.

Note: Input will be stripped of all leading & trailing / characters, so there's no need to normalize your own URLs before passing it to parse!

matchit.match(url, routes)

Returns: Array

Returns the route's encoded definition. See matchit.parse.

url

Type: String

The true URL you want to be matched.

routes

Type: Array

All "parsed" route definitions, via matchit.parse.

Important: Multiple routes will require an Array of matchit.parse outputs.

matchit.exec(url, match)

Returns: Object

Returns an object an object of key:val pairs, as defined by your route pattern.

url

Type: String

The URL (pathname) to evaluate.

Important: This should be pathnames only as any querystrings will be included the response.

match

Type: Array

The route definition to use, via matchit.match.

Benchmarks

matchit.parse
  --> 307,336 ops/sec ±0.52% (93 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp
  --> 61,995 ops/sec ±0.71% (91 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.parse
  --> 211,109 ops/sec ±0.63% (92 runs sampled)

matchit.match (index)
  --> 5,197,884 ops/sec ±0.57% (95 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.exec (index)
  --> 925,370 ops/sec ±0.55% (91 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.tokens (index)
  --> 69,317 ops/sec ±0.48% (94 runs sampled)

matchit.match (param)
  --> 1,850,751 ops/sec ±0.87% (90 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.exec (param)
  --> 818,080 ops/sec ±0.64% (94 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.tokens (param)
  --> 68,879 ops/sec ±0.48% (94 runs sampled)

matchit.match (optional)
  --> 2,051,647 ops/sec ±0.87% (90 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.exec (optional)
  --> 1,597,584 ops/sec ±0.67% (92 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.tokens (optional)
  --> 72,507 ops/sec ±0.50% (96 runs sampled)

matchit.match (wildcard)
  --> 2,040,094 ops/sec ±0.80% (88 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.exec (wildcard)
  --> 1,588,553 ops/sec ±0.81% (93 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.tokens (wildcard)
  --> 71,419 ops/sec ±0.50% (91 runs sampled)

matchit.exec (params)
  --> 1,015,649 ops/sec ±0.73% (87 runs sampled)
path-to-regexp.exec (params)
  --> 72,230 ops/sec ±0.56% (95 runs sampled)

License

MIT © Luke Edwards