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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