Does node.js provide a way to write non-trivial clean URLs?

Question

I would like to write non-trivial dynamic clean URLs in node.js. For example

mynodeserver.com/browse/itemid

instead of

mynodeserver.com/browse?id=itemid

Right now my static clean urls (browse,login,register,etc) are based on string comparison, which obviously is not the complete solution for this problem.

var pathname = url.parse(request.url).pathname;
//check if there is a request handler for this path
if (typeof handle[ pathname ] === 'function') 
{
    handle[pathname]( response, request, postData );
}

Is there a native way (or light plugin) to write non-trivial clean URLs?

I'm using Cloud9 IDE

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '12 at 07:56

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Writing your own parser for urls should not be a difficult job I think. Assuming you know how to use regular expressions.

I've never heard about standalone plugin for doing this, but you can use very good Express framework. It has url parser built-in.

answered Mar 13 '12 at 07:56

freakish

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you were right, I was able to pull it off with some RegExp magic and tricks. – supertopi Mar 13 '12 at 16:54
@supertopi can you provide the code that you used to get the clean urls working?? Is is possible to have two levels of path like xyz.com/tag/football/1, xyz.com/tag/cricket/2 where cricket and football are tag names and 1 and 2 are page numbers. – peter Apr 24 '13 at 12:44
@peter hey, it's been a long time since I wrote this parser. Here's some of the code, you may or may not find it useful. http://pastebin.com/RTUMt0cr – supertopi May 08 '13 at 09:08

Does node.js provide a way to write non-trivial clean URLs?

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