Generated file-based routes for Vite
Motivation
I enjoyed using file-based routing since I tried Next.js (pages directory). After applying the same concept with Vite and client-side applications, I started writing blog posts covering the implementation of client-side file-based routing with React Router which was packaged later as generouted
.
Today generouted
brings many features, supports multiple frameworks and routers, and inspires ideas and conventions from Next.js, Remix, Expo, Docusaurus, SvelteKit and more.
How does it work?
generouted
uses Vite's glob import API to list the routes within the src/pages
directory and generates the routes tree and modals based on generouted
's conventions.
There are also Vite plugins available for some integrations to provide type-safe components/hooks/utils through code-generation.
- π Client-side file-based routing
- β‘ Powered by Vite
- β¨ React support with
react-router-dom
or@tanstack/router
π§ͺ or@tanstack/react-location
π¨ - β¨ Solid support with
@solidjs/router
- π Type-safe navigation
- π Type-safe global modals
- π€ Route-based code-splitting and lazy-loading
- π Route-based data loaders and actions
- π£ Route-based error boundary
- π Nested layouts
- π« Pathless layout groups
- β Optional static and dynamic routes
- π Ignored routes per file or directory
- β‘ Visit
generouted
's interactive playground via StackBlitz - 𧩠Explore file-based routing patterns and conventions
- π Visualize the routes layouts and the resolved routes paths
- π Update
src/pages/
files and see your changes reflecting
React Router
In case you don't have a Vite project with React and TypeScript, check Vite documentation to start a new project.
pnpm add @generouted/react-router react-router-dom
// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react'
import generouted from '@generouted/react-router/plugin'
export default defineConfig({ plugins: [react(), generouted()] })
// src/main.tsx
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
import { Routes } from '@generouted/react-router'
createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(<Routes />)
Add the home page by creating a new file src/pages/index.tsx
β /
, then export a default component:
export default function Home() {
return <h1>Home</h1>
}
Check the routing conventions section below.
You can find more details about type-safe navigation and global modals at @generouted/react-router
docs.
Solid Router
In case you don't have a Vite project with Solid and TypeScript, check Vite documentation to start a new project.
pnpm add @generouted/solid-router @solidjs/router
// vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import solid from 'vite-plugin-solid'
import generouted from '@generouted/solid-router/plugin'
export default defineConfig({ plugins: [solid(), generouted()] })
// src/main.tsx
import { render } from 'solid-js/web'
import { Routes } from '@generouted/solid-router'
render(Routes, document.getElementById('root')!)
Add the home page by creating a new file src/pages/index.tsx
β /
, then export a default component:
export default function Home() {
return <h1>Home</h1>
}
See more about generouted
routing conventions below.
You can find more details about type-safe navigation and global modals at @generouted/solid-router
docs.
TanStack React Router β In-progress experimental support π§ͺ
React Location β Deprecated π¨
In case you don't have a Vite project with React and TypeScript, check Vite documentation to start a new project.
pnpm add generouted @tanstack/react-location
// src/main.tsx
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client'
import { Routes } from 'generouted/react-location'
createRoot(document.getElementById('root')!).render(<Routes />)
Add the home page by creating a new file src/pages/index.tsx
β /
, then export a default component:
export default function Home() {
return <h1>Home</h1>
}
- Routes declaration at
src/pages
- Supports
.tsx
or.jsx
extensions - Optional
src/pages/_app.tsx
for an app level layout - Optional
src/pages/404.tsx
for a custom not-found page
src/pages/index.tsx
β/
src/pages/posts/index.tsx
β/posts
src/pages/posts/2022/index.tsx
β/posts/2022
src/pages/posts/2022/resolutions.tsx
β/posts/2022/resolutions
src/pages/posts/[slug].tsx
β/posts/:slug
src/pages/posts/[slug]/tags.tsx
β/posts/:slug/tags
src/pages/posts/[...all].tsx
β/posts/*
- By defining
_layout.tsx
in any nested directory βsrc/pages/posts/_layout.tsx
- Requires using an
<Outlet />
component to render layout children - All the files within the
src/pages/posts/
directory in this case, will be wrapped with that layout
- Route file should be outside of the nested layout directory
- Include dots
.
between the segments to be converted to forward slashes src/pages/posts.nested.as.url.not.layout.tsx
β/posts/nested/as/url/not/layout
- Similar to nested layouts for layout definition
- By wrapping the parent directory with parentheses
()
src/pages/(auth)/_layout.tsx
src/pages/(auth)/login.tsx
β/login
- Layout parent directory name is not included in the routes paths
- By prefixing the file name with a plus sign
+
(thinking the modal is an extra route overlaying the current route) - Modals navigation available via the
useModals()
hook src/pages/+info.tsx
β/info
src/pages/+checkout/+details.tsx
β/checkout/details
src/pages/+checkout/+payment.tsx
β/checkout/payment
- By prefixing a route segment with a minus sign
-
(thinking the segment can be subtracted or removed from the route path) src/pages/-en/about.tsx
β/en?/about
β/en/about
,/about
src/pages/-[lang]/about.tsx
β/:lang?/about
β/en/about
,/fr/about
,/about
- Any directory or file starts with an underscore
_
will be ignored src/pages/_ignored.tsx
src/pages/posts/_components/button.tsx
src/pages/posts/_components/link.tsx
- Required page component
export default Component() {...}
- Optional page loader function
export const Loader = () => {...}
- Optional page action function
export const Action = () => {...}
- Optional error boundary component
export const Catch = () => {...}
Directory structure
src/pages
βββ (auth)
β βββ _layout.tsx
β βββ login.tsx
β βββ register.tsx
βββ blog
β βββ _components
β β βββ button.tsx
β β βββ comments.tsx
β βββ [...all].tsx
β βββ [slug].tsx
β βββ _layout.tsx
β βββ index.tsx
β βββ tags.tsx
βββ docs
β βββ -[lang]
β β βββ index.tsx
β β βββ resources.tsx
β βββ -en
β βββ contributors.tsx
βββ +info.tsx
βββ 404.tsx
βββ _app.tsx
βββ _ignored.tsx
βββ about.tsx
βββ blog.w.o.layout.tsx
βββ index.tsx
Overview
File | Path | Convention |
---|---|---|
(auth)/_layout.tsx |
Pathless Layout group | |
(auth)/login.tsx |
/login |
Regular route |
(auth)/register.tsx |
/register |
Regular route |
blog/_components/button.tsx |
Ignored route by an ignored directory | |
blog/_components/comments.tsx |
Ignored route by an ignored directory | |
blog/[...all].tsx |
/blog/* |
Dynamic catch-all route |
blog/[slug].tsx |
/blog/:slug |
Dynamic route |
blog/_layout.tsx |
Layout for /blog routes |
|
blog/index.tsx |
/blog |
Index route |
blog/tags.tsx |
/blog/tags |
Regular route |
docs/-[lang]/index.tsx |
/docs/:lang?/index |
Optional dynamic route segment |
docs/-[lang]/resources.tsx |
/docs/:lang?/resources |
Optional dynamic route segment |
docs/-en/contributors.tsx |
/docs/en?/contributors |
Optional static route segment |
+info.tsx |
/info |
Modal route |
404.tsx |
* |
Custom 404 (optional) |
_app.tsx |
Custom app layout (optional) |
|
_ignored.tsx |
Ignored route | |
about.tsx |
/about |
Regular route |
blog.w.o.layout.tsx |
/blog/w/o/layout |
Route without /blog layout |
index.tsx |
/ |
Index route |
Via @generouted/react-router
or @generouted/solid-router
<Routes />
β file-based routing component to be render in the app entry<Modals />
β optional file-based modals component to be render in the_app.tsx
layoutroutes
β file-based routes tree/object used by default at<Routes />
component
Via @generouted/react-router/lazy
or @generouted/solid-router/lazy
- Used instead of
@generouted/react-router
or@generouted/solid-router
to enable lazy-loading - Make sure to replace all imports to lazy imports β namely at app entry and
src/pages/_app.tsx
- Provides the same
<Routes />
,<Modals />
androutes
exports
Via @generouted/react-router/plugin
or @generouted/solid-router/plugin
- Vite plugin for type generation and initializing type-safe components/hooks/utils
- Generates
src/router.ts
file - Exports type-safe
<Link>
,<Navigate>
,useModals()
,useNavigate()
,useParams()
,redirect()
, etc. - Check out
@generouted/react-router
docs or@generouted/solid-router
docs for more details
Via @generouted/react-router/core
or @generouted/solid-router/core
- Available for customization, however it's recommended to use the available integrations directory via the
<Routes/>
component - Check out the custom integration example
MIT