Referencing an Express app from my router module

Question

Referencing an Express app from my router module

I read from various posts here that a good way to structure an Express app is to create a routes.js module with contents such as:

exports.homepage = function (req, res) {
    // do something
}

Then, from my app.js:

var app = module.exports = express.createServer();
app.get('/', routes.homepage);

This works a treat until I want to change my "do something" to do another request like so:

exports.homepage = function (req, res) {
    app.get('/sign-in', myCallbackFunc);
}

My routes.js knows nothing about app. How do I pass in/reference "app". Or is the way I've structured this incorrect?

Thanks!

node.js
routes
express

Answer 1

Not sure, how your project is structured. But this, is how I would create the routes.js file:

var routes = function(app) {
    app.get('/', function(req, res) {
       // do something
    });

    app.get('/sign-in', function(req, res) {
       // do something
    });
};

module.exports = routes;

And the from your app.js, simply require your routes file like so:

require('./routes')(app);