We use data-url attributes alongside Stimulus at Basecamp. I don't see that
a JS router is something we'd ship by default. But great to have that as a
gem 👍
On Friday, January 25, 2019 at 6:08:08 AM UTC-8, Bogdan Gusiev wrote:
>
> Good Morning,
>
> Rails route URL helpers are great. Their API is concise and intuitive.
> I believe that we should have that API available in Javascript too:
>
> users_path() // => "/users"
> user_path(1) // => "/users/1"
> user_path(1, {format: 'json'}) // => "/users/1.json"
> user_path(1, {anchor: 'profile'}) // =>
> "/users/1#profile"
> new_user_project_path(1, {format: 'json'}) // =>
> "/users/1/projects/new.json"
> user_project_path(1,2, {q: 'hello', custom: true}) // =>
> "/users/1/projects/2?q=hello&custom=true"
> user_project_path(1,2, {hello: ['world', 'mars']}) // =>
> "/users/1/projects/2?hello%5B%5D=world&hello%5B%5D=mars"
>
>
>
> Most Rails projects I know hardcode routes in Javascript, some pass those
> routes from HTML as data attributes.
> Like:
>
> jQuery.get("/posts/" + post.id + "/comments/" + comment.id + ".json",
> function(){ ...});
> // slightly better
> jQuery.get($(this).data("url"), function(){ ...});
>
>
>
>
> But I believe that extensive use of JS should require URL helpers.
>
> Here is the "prototype" 8 years old project I maintain:
> https://github.com/railsware/js-routes
> But I believe 90% of Rails projects need that out of the box now.
>
> What do you think about adding the functionality to the Rails core?
>
>
>
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