Aurepa - Routing

Routing is an important part of every apppcation. In this chapter, you will learn how to use the router in Aurepa framework.

Step 1 - Create Pages

We have already created a components folder in one of the former chapters. If you don t have it created already, you should place it inside the src folder.

C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrc>mkdir components

Inside this folder, we will create home and about directories.

C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrccomponents>mkdir home
C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrccomponents>mkdir about

Inside the home folder, we need to create view and view-model files.

C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrccomponentshome>touch home.js
C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrccomponentshome>touch home.html

We also need view and view-model for about page.

C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrccomponentsabout>touch about.js
C:UsersusernameDesktopaurepaAppsrccomponentsabout>touch about.html

Note − You can also create all the above folders manually.

Step 2 - Pages

Next, we need to add some default code to the files we created.

home.html

<template>
   <h1>HOME</h1>
</template>

home.js

export class Home {}

about.html

<template>
   <h1>ABOUT</h1>
</template>

about.js

export class About {}

Step 3 - Router

We will create view-model for router inside app.js file.

app.js

export class App {
   configureRouter(config, router) {
      config.title =  Aurepa ;
		
      config.map([
         { route: [  , home ],  name:  home ,  
            moduleId:  ./components/home/home ,  nav: true, title: Home  },
         { route:  about ,  name:  about ,
            moduleId:  ./components/about/about ,    nav: true, title: About  }
      ]);

      this.router = router;
   }
}

Our router view will be placed in app.html.

app.html

<template>
   <nav>
      <ul>
         <p repeat.for = "row of router.navigation">
            <a href.bind = "row.href">${row.title}</a>
         </p>
      </ul>
   </nav>	
   <router-view></router-view>
</template>

When we run the app, we will can change the routes by cpcking home or about pnks.