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flatiron / director

director

a tiny and isomorphic URL router for JavaScript

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What it is

a tiny and isomorphic URL router for JavaScript

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Ember.js is incredible. But, I highly recommend looking into the non-opinionated options out there as well. I started with Ember.js building my app, but realized it exceeded…

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Feb 2015	2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2015	2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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danesparza·Mar 24, 2015

Yes. I have built a few. The router I chose was Flatiron director (link: https://github.com/flatiron/director ). I used jQuery for Ajax calls. Everything else was React + Flux.

In A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React

akrymski·Nov 11, 2014

ToDo example actually has simple routing. I'm using this mostly for PhoneGap projects so don't even use routing, but any routing library should work same way as in Backbone, eg: https://github.com/flatiron/director Thanks, would be happy to accept contributions!

In Show HN: Espresso.js – React Meets Backbone for a Minimal MVC

daGrevis·Apr 19, 2014

I'm doing something similar[0] like author is doing and for URL routing I use Director[1]. [0] https://github.com/daGrevis/Hendrix [1] https://github.com/flatiron/director

In Reactive UIs with React and Bacon

jessep·Jan 28, 2014

I haven't handled routing yet, a lot of people seem to use https://github.com/flatiron/director, which I would probably do. This is the one area where I missed something from Ember. For models, I've just rolled my own so far. I've experimented in one small project with having a global state object that cotnains all application state data, and then just having domain fns that operate on that data. Inspired by the react people's descriptions of "flux" architecture. It felt really nice. When using Ember, I got really confused by Ember's Ember Data vs. Ember Model vs. whatever conversation. Again, I just didn't really know what to do here, and I attribute it to my own shortcomings.

In Ember.js is driving me crazy

tel·Jan 24, 2014

Can someone explain to me what "isomorphic" means in the tagline for the linked Director library[1]? I have no idea how isomorphism is supposed to play into all of this? [1] "a tiny and isomorphic URL router for JavaScript http://github.com/flatiron/director"

In React: Finally, a great server/client web stack

alanctkc·Aug 14, 2013Recommendation phrase

Ember.js is incredible. But, I highly recommend looking into the non-opinionated options out there as well. I started with Ember.js building my app, but realized it exceeded the needs of the project and strongly imposed the design of the application. Since I had the time to invest up front, I switched to using non-opinionated libraries: - Rivets.js for DOM data binding: http://rivetsjs.com/ - Director for URL routing: https://github.com/flatiron/director (also see Crossroads.js) - Stapes.js for observable objects: http://hay.github.io/stapes/ (Stapes provided the foundation for my controllers and models) I was able to borrow lots of design concepts I learned from Ember when re-implementing, and the total JS file size ended up being about half.

In Ember.js 1.0 RC7 Released