vite-plugin-file-based-react-router

Opinionated vite plugin to generate file-based routes for using with react-router.

Inspired from tanstack.com/router, but without TypeScript.

Breaking changes

• Removed support of react-router loader
  • Sub-module landing page redirection is now implemented by the <Navigate to={subModuleLandingPage} /> (previously by redirect in loader function)

Features

• supports React's lazy import and React Router's lazy route modules

  Refers to React Router's lazy feature

• supports .../* sub-routers

  Refers to React Router's FAQ

• supports page metadata as route handle

  Refers to React Router's handle usage

• supports routing to a sub module as a npm package

• supports both react-router v6/v7 and @xgent/router-lite (recommended)

Installation

npm i --save-dev vite-plugin-file-based-react-router

Config

Plugin config in vite.config.js.

import fileBasedReactRouter from 'vite-plugin-file-based-react-router';

//...
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    fileBasedReactRouter({
      enabled, // optional, default as true
      root, // optional, default as 'src'
      routesDir, // optional, default as 'pages'
      runtimePagesDir, // optional, default as 'runtime_modules',
      enableSentry, // optional, default as false, set to true to turn on sentry's browser router injection
      reactRouterLib, // optional, default as 'react-router-dom', can be @xgent/router-lite for a lightweight router implementation
      subRouters: { // optional sub-routers
        '/app/editor': { 
          // load sub-router from ./modules/editor and mount it to /app/editor/*
          importPath: './modules/editor', // can be a npm package name
          defaultRoute: '/dashboard', // the landing page of this module will be /app/editor/dashboard
          isLazy: true,
        },
      },
    }),
    //...
  ]
});

File-based convention

• Sample files under src/pages:

├── _error.jsx or _error.lazy_.jsx : component as errorElement under /
├── _layout.jsx : layout as element under /
├── app 
│   ├── [module]
│   │   └── _any.lazy_.jsx : component as element under /app/:module/* with lazy import
│   └── _layout.jsx : layout as element under /app
├── route1 
│   └── index.jsx : component as element under /route1
├── login.lazy_.jsx : component as lazy element under /login
└── other-non-lazy.jsx : component as element under /other-non-lazy

• Sample files under src/modules/editor/pages as sub-router:

├── _layout.jsx : layout as element under /app/editor
├── project.[id].edit.lazy_.jsx : component as element under /app/editor/project/:id/edit with lazy import
├── project.lazy_.jsx : component as element under /app/editor/project with lazy import
└── workspace.jsx : component as element under /app/editor/workspace 

Route component (as element)

// all pages should have this export, however, the value of handle can be null if there is no special metadata for the page
export const handle = {
  //..., usually, crumb: 'Breadcrumb Name'
}; // exposed as handle

export const Component = () => {...}; // as layout or page 
Component.displayName = 'ComponentName'; // optional, useful for inspection

Data loader (deprecated)

export default ({ params }) => { 
    const result = do_some_thing_before_rendering_page();
    return result; // can be accessed by useLoaderData() in the page component
}

Error component (as errorElement)

function ErrorComponent() {
    const error = useRouteError();
    // ...
};

export default ErrorComponent;

Lazy module

export const handle = {
  //...
}; 

export const Component = () => {...}; // as page 
Component.displayName = 'ComponentName'; // optional, useful for inspection

Runtime generated files

After running vite dev or vite build, it will generate

• ./src/router.runtime.jsx
• ./src/runtime_modules/editor/sub-routes.runtime.jsx

Note:

• You may add ./src/router.runtime.jsx into .gitignore as it's dynamically generated by this plugin.
• You may also add ./src/runtime_modules into .gitignore as it's used as a folder for runtime files.

Usage

import { RouterProvider, createBrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";
import routes, { lazyRouting } from './routes.runtime';

const router = createBrowserRouter(routes, { patchRoutesOnNavigation: lazyRouting });

<RouterProvider router={router} />

License

MIT