Plugins

router5 is extensible with the use of plugins. Plugins can decorate a route instance and do things on specific router and transition events.

Plugin requirements

A plugin is a function taking a router instance and returning an object with a name and at least one of the following methods:

• onStart(): invoked when router.start() is called

• onStop(): invoked when router.stop() is called

• onTransitionStart(toState, fromState)

• onTransitionCancel(toState, fromState)

• onTransitionError(toState, fromState, err)

• onTransitionSuccess(toState, fromState, opts) (options contains replace and reload boolean flags)

• teardown(): a function called when removing the plugin

Registering a plugin

function myPlugin(router, dependencies) {
    return {
        onTransitionSuccess: (toState, fromState) => {
            console.log(
                'Yippee, navigation to ' + toState.name + ' was successful!'
            )
        }
    }
}

const router = createRouter()

router.usePlugin(myPlugin)

Plugin examples

• Browser plugin
• Persistent params plugin
• Logger

Router5 includes a logging plugin that you can use to help development

import createRouter, { loggerPlugin } from 'router5'

const router = createRouter()

const teardownPlgin = router.usePlugin(loggerPlugin)