Introduction

Crossroads.js is a routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc... It parses a string input and decides which action should be executed by matching the string against multiple patterns.

If used properly it can reduce code complexity by decoupling objects and also by abstracting navigation paths.

See project page for documentation and more details.

Links

• Project page and documentation
• Usage examples
• Changelog

Dependencies

This library requires JS-Signals to work.

License

MIT License

Distribution Files

Files inside dist folder.

• crossroads.js : Uncompressed source code with comments.
• crossroads.min.js : Compressed code.

You can install Crossroads on Node.js using NPM

npm install crossroads

Repository Structure

Folder Structure

dev       ->  development files
|- build        ->  files used on the build process
|- lib          ->  3rd-party libraries
|- src          ->  source files
|- tests        ->  unit tests
dist      ->  distribution files

Branches

master      ->  always contain code from the latest stable version
release-**  ->  code canditate for the next stable version (alpha/beta)
dev         ->  main development branch (nightly)
gh-pages    ->  project page
**other**   ->  features/hotfixes/experimental, probably non-stable code

Building your own

This project uses Apache Ant for the build process. If for some reason you need to build a custom version install Ant and run:

ant compile

This will delete all JS files inside the dist folder, merge/update/compress source files and copy the output to the dist folder.

IMPORTANT: dist folder always contain the latest version, regular users should not need to run build task.

Running unit tests

On the browser

Open dev/tests/spec_runner-dist.html on your browser.

spec_runner-dist tests dist/crossroads.js and spec_runner-dev tests files inside dev/src - they all run the same specs.

On Node.js

Install npm and run:

npm install jasmine-node -g
npm link
jasmine-node dev/tests/spec

Note that node.js can only run the distribution file, so any change to the dev/src files will require a new ant compile. npm link takes care of installing dependencies and updating crossroads at each change to the crossroads.cjs.js file.