Posts tagged Routing

In my last post, we explored the new routing functionality that has been incorporated in Ext JS 5. I had a lot of great feedback and discussions come from that (thanks!), so I thought I’d add a few more notes about some of the routing functionality that I didn’t discuss in the last post. So without further jabbering, let’s dive in.

One nice feature of routing in Ext JS 5 is that not only can you add a before handler to the route execution, but you can also filter routes which will be matched based on a regex string.

For example, let’s consider our users/:id route from the last post:

routes: {
    ...
    'users/:id': {
        action: 'onUserDetail',
        before: 'onBeforeUserDetail'
    }
}

As written, this route will match any hash in this form, regardless of what actual value is passed for our “id” placeholder. What this means is that if someone gets clever and starts to try to manually hack our hash with some value other than what comes naturally from our application, our before handler is still going to fire on the hacked value, and whatever code is in that handler will execute.

Obviously, we could put some error/hack handling in our before handler, but More >