express js requiring url from another file

Question

express js requiring url from another file

I have this:

./urls.coffee

urlConfig = [
    ["/", (req, res) -> res.send "hello world"]
]
module.exports = urlConfig

./utils/helpers.coffee

getUrl = (app, urlconfig)->
    for url in urlconfig
       app.get url[0], url[1]
module.exports.getUrl = getUrl

./app.coffee

express = require "express",
app = express();
helper = require "./utils/helper"
urls = require "./urls"

helper.getUrl app, urls

I'm trying to separate url from app.coffee by defining it in another file url.coffee.

But the callback cannot receive (req, res) args, the error is: req is not defined, but if the callback receives no args, it works fine. Anybody have any thoughts or suggestion?

node.js
express
coffeescript

Answer 1

Shouldn't it be something like:

var express = require "express",
helper = require "./utils/helper"

app = express();
app.get = helper.getUrl

?