🚀 v3 Request: New ideas for routing and mounting

[balcieren]

New Router instead of Group , Route and Mount (should be deprecate)

Express Router

Routing

func UserRouter() *fiber.Router {
	router := fiber.NewRouter()

	router.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
		return c.JSON("fiber v3")
	})

	return router
}

func main() {
	app := fiber.New()

	app.Use("/user", UserRouter)

	app.Listen(":3000")
}

RouterConfig can contain

---

Mounting (#2022)

Express Mount

func main() {
	app := fiber.New()

	user := fiber.New()

	user.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
		return c.JSON("fiber-v3")
	})

	user.On("mount", func(parent *fiber.App) {
		fmt.Println("user mounted")
	})

	app.Use("/user", user)

	app.Listen(":3000")
}

---

fiber.Route() (#2065)

Express Route

func main() {
	app := fiber.New()

	app.Route("/events").
		All(func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
			...
		}).
		Get(func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
			...
		}).
		Post(func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
			...
		})

	app.Listen(":3000")
}

[vishjain]

@ReneWerner87 Can I work on this feature?

[efectn]

@ReneWerner87 Can I work on this feature?

You can work for this feature. Also i have some ideas about mounting and grouping after this feature. If you open a PR, i can add some comments

[efectn]

Hi @vishjain. Are there any progress?

[vishjain]

Working on it right now. Thanks!

[m13t]

I'm quite keen to see if this would support my use case as I was surprised it doesn't work in v2. I'm essentially dynamically constructing an additional router in a piece of middleware and then handing off to that router. This is something I've done similar in express for complex dynamic multi-tenanted apps but short of creating it all in a fiber.Handler and branching that in the middleware I'm not sure how else to do it. Would be nice to see this in v3.

To clarify I'm not talking about utilising app.Use or app.Mount here as that is adding to the middleware stack for the app instance, not per request. Essentially it's a router or app instance lacking the ability to be called by another app like a Handler can be.

e.g.

func createSubRouter() *fiber.Router {
  r := fiber.New()
  r.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
    c.JSON("Dynamic Route")
  })
  return r
}

func main() {
  app := fiber.New()
  app.Use(func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
    if someCondition() {
      r := createSubRouter()
      return r.Handle(c)
    }

    // Standard flow
    return c.Next()
  }
}

[efectn]

I'm going to start implementing router in the next weeks 🚀