refs #9601
- refactor architecture of routing so you can define a channel
- a channel is a different way of looking at your posts (a view)
- a channel does not change the url of a resource
Example channel
```
routes:
/worldcup-2018-russia/:
controller: channel
filter: tag:football18
data: tag.football18
```
- added ability to redirect resources to a channel/static route
- support templates for channels
- ensure we still support static routes (e.g. /about/: home)
- ensure pagination + rss works out of the box
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- you can define a redirect in your routes.yaml
e.g. from `page.home` to /about/
- we have to check for a possible redirect before rendering the target static page
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- support data, limit and order for collections
- limit definition in routes.yaml is stronger than theme package.json limit configuration
- ensure we update hbs template options
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Example:
```
collections:
/podcast/:
permalink: /{slug}/
```
- the name of the collection is remembered as `routerName` (in the case above: "podcast")
- the name of the collection is important for two things
1. context value
2. template name
- the context value is available for specific theme helpers e.g. is helper, body_class helper
- we auto-lookup the collection name in your theme e.g. podcast.hbs
- this logic does not apply to static routes
- if you define templates on your collection, they are stronger than the collection name
closes https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9674
- with dynamic routing the first collection get's the "index" context attached
- the index context signalises the main post listening route (first collection)
- this behaviour was present < 1.24 - we have to keep this behaviour
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- if you call `express.Router()`, the router's name is always "router"
- that is caused by the closure behaviour in express:
- https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/4.16.3/lib/router/index.js#L46
- Ghost creates a couple of express routers for dynamic routing
- it depends how much you configure in your routes.yaml file
- but every router is called "router"
- this is hard to work with
- with this router wrapping logic, we are able to give each router an exact name
If you enable `DEBUG=ghost:services:routing:*`, you have seen this before
> ghost:services:routing:ParentRouter site: mountRouter: router +0ms
With the wrapper logic, you will see:
> ghost:services:routing:ParentRouter site: mountRouter: StaticPagesRouter +0ms
- furthermore, if you have to access the router stack (`app.router.stack`), you can easily identify and find router instances by name
closes#9675
- with dynamic routing we have introduced a breaking change, which we have overseen
- Ghost does not return absolute urls, that's why the clients need to concat the blog url and the resource url
- with 1.24.0 Ghost returned resource urls including the subdirectory
- this caused trouble for e.g. zapier or the preview feature in the admin client
- revert breaking change and ensure we only expose resource urls without subdirectory
no issue
- was introduced with dynamic routing beta: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/1.24.0
- the slug param wasn't forwarded correctly
- you were not able to render a custom tag or author template e.g. `tag-news.hbs`
closes#9674
- the collection router had a hardcoded default context "home"
- this is wrong
- the context array get's automatically filled for the collection
- if you are serving a page e.g. /page/2/ -> it's "paged"
- if you are serving / -> it's "home"
- same for {{body_class}}, it outputs "home-template" on "/"
- this is the same behaviour as in 1.23.x
no issue
- reverse must happen once in the constructor
- otherwise we reverse the array on each request
- Ghost would randomly pick the first and then the second template
refs #9601
### Dynamic Routing
This is the beta version of dynamic routing.
- we had a initial implementation of "channels" available in the codebase
- we have removed and moved this implementation
- there is now a centralised place for dynamic routing - server/services/routing
- each routing component is represented by a router type e.g. collections, routes, static pages, taxonomies, rss, preview of posts
- keep as much as possible logic of routing helpers, middlewares and controllers
- ensure test coverage
- connect all the things together
- yaml file + validation
- routing + routers
- url service
- sitemaps
- url access
- deeper implementation of yaml validations
- e.g. hard require slashes
- ensure routing hierarchy/order
- e.g. you enable the subscriber app
- you have a custom static page, which lives under the same slug /subscribe
- static pages are stronger than apps
- e.g. the first collection owns the post it has filtered
- a post cannot live in two collections
- ensure apps are still working and hook into the routers layer (or better said: and register in the routing service)
- put as much as possible comments to the code base for better understanding
- ensure a clean debug log
- ensure we can unmount routes
- e.g. you have a collection permalink of /:slug/ represented by {globals.permalink}
- and you change the permalink in the admin to dated permalink
- the express route get's refreshed from /:slug/ to /:year/:month/:day/:slug/
- unmount without server restart, yey
- ensure we are backwards compatible
- e.g. render home.hbs for collection index if collection route is /
- ensure you can access your configured permalink from the settings table with {globals.permalink}
### Render 503 if url service did not finish
- return 503 if the url service has not finished generating the resource urls
### Rewrite sitemaps
- we have rewritten the sitemaps "service", because the url generator does no longer happen on runtime
- we generate all urls on bootstrap
- the sitemaps service will consume created resource and router urls
- these urls will be shown on the xml pages
- we listen on url events
- we listen on router events
- we no longer have to fetch the resources, which is nice
- the urlservice pre-fetches resources and emits their urls
- the urlservice is the only component who knows which urls are valid
- i made some ES6 adaptions
- we keep the caching logic -> only regenerate xml if there is a change
- updated tests
- checked test coverage (100%)
### Re-work usage of Url utility
- replace all usages of `urlService.utils.urlFor` by `urlService.getByResourceId`
- only for resources e.g. post, author, tag
- this is important, because with dynamic routing we no longer create static urls based on the settings permalink on runtime
- adapt url utility
- adapt tests
