Express-Mongoose Controller Factory

Controller (middleware) factory product instances of which provide basic api for handling CRUD requests.

Using this component provides flexibility of creating very common in most cases Express routes middlewares. It helps to avoid code duplication and keep you code DRY and in the same time customize controllers when needed.

Installation

npm install controller-factory

Usage Example

import express from 'express'

import ControllerFactory from 'controller-factory'
import Entity from './model'

const controller = ControllerFactory.getControllerFor(Entity)
const entityRoutes = express.Router()

entityRoutes
.post('/', controller.create)
.get('/', controller.find)
.get('/:id', controller.findById)
.put('/:id', controller.update)
.delete('/:id', controller.remove)

API

ControllerFactory.getControllerFor(entity, overrides, base)

Parameters:

entity <Object> Mongoose model instance, required

overrides <Object> Mixin containing CRUD methods to override base ones, default plain object

base <Object> Base object containing CRUD methods, default ControllerBase

Please find base implementation in ./lib/controller-base.js