remix-routes

remix-routes automatically generates typesafe helper functions for manipulating internal links in your Remix apps.

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remix-routes also works with remix-modules.

Installation

$ npm add remix-routes

Setup

Add remix-routes to your dev and build script in package.json.

With concurrently package:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "remix-routes && remix build",
    "dev": "concurrently \"remix-routes -w\" \"remix dev\""
  }
}

With npm-run-all package:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "run-s build:*",
    "build:routes": "remix-routes",
    "dev": "run-p dev:*",
    "dev:routes": "remix-routes -w",
  }
}

Usage

Basic usage

import type { ActionFunction } from 'remix';
import { redirect } from 'remix';
import { $path } from 'remix-routes'; // <-- Import magical $path helper from remix-routes.

export const action: ActionFunction = async ({ request }) => {
  let formData = await request.formData();
  const post = await createPost(formData);

  return redirect($path('/posts/:id', { id: post.id })); // <-- It's type safe.
};

Appending query string:

import { $path } from 'remix-routes';

$path('/posts/:id', { id: 6 }, { version: 18 }); // => /posts/6?version=18
$path('/posts', { limit: 10 }); // => /posts?limit=10
// You can pass any URLSearchParams init as param
$path('/posts/delete', [['id', 1], ['id', 2]]); // => /posts/delete?id=1&id=2

Typed query string:

Define type of query string by exporting a type named SearchParams in route file:

// app/routes/posts.tsx

export type SearchParams = {
  view: 'list' | 'grid',
  sort?: 'date' | 'views',
  page?: number,
}

import { $path } from 'remix-routes';

// The query string is type-safe.
$path('/posts', { view: 'list', sort: 'date', page: 1 });

You can combine this feature with zod and remix-params-helper to add runtime params checking:

import { z } from "zod";
import { getSearchParams } from "remix-params-helper";

const SearchParamsSchema = z.object({
  view: z.enum(["list", "grid"]),
  sort: z.enum(["price", "size"]).optional(),
  page: z.number().int().optional(),
})

export type SearchParams = z.infer<typeof SearchParamsSchema>;

export const loader = async (request) => {
  const result = getSearchParams(request, SearchParamsSchema)
  if (!result.success) {
    return json(result.errors, { status: 400 })
  }
  const { view, sort, page } = result.data;
}

Checking params:

import type { ActionFunction } from 'remix';
import { $params } from 'remix-routes'; // <-- Import $params helper.

export const action: ActionFunction = async ({ params }) => {
  const { id } = $params("/posts/:id/update", params) // <-- It's type safe, try renaming `id` param.

  // ...
}

Route type definitions

remix-routes also export all route type definitions for your convenience.

import type { Routes } from 'remix-routes';
import { useParams } from "remix";

export default function Component() {
  const { id } = useParams<Routes['/posts/:id']['params']>();
  ...
}

$routeId helper for useRouteLoaderData route ids

remix-routes exports the RouteId type definition with the list of all valid route ids for your repository, and has a helper function $routeId that tells typescript to restrict the given string to one of the valid RouteId values.

import type { RouteId } from 'remix-routes';
import type { loader as postsLoader } from './_layout.tsx';
import { useRouteLoaderData } from '@remix-run/react';
import { $routeId } from 'remix-routes';

export default function Post() {
  const postList = useRouteLoaderData<typeof postsLoader>($routeId('routes/posts/_layout'));

Command Line Options

-w: Watch for changes and automatically rebuild.
-s: Enale strict mode. In strict mode only routes that define SearchParams type are allowed to have query string.
-o: Specify the output path for remix-routes.d.ts. Defaults to ./node_modules if arg is not given.

TypeScript Integration

A TypeScript plugin is available to help you navigate between route files.

Installation

$ npm add -D typescript-remix-routes-plugin

Setup

Add the plugin to your tsconfig.json:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "plugins": [
      {
        "name": "typescript-remix-routes-plugin"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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License

MIT

GitHub

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