Same route for multiple paths

[dandv]

Google autosuggests "iron router multiple" -> ""iron router multiple paths", but I haven't found documentation about this, or an SO question.

Something like this would be useful:

  this.route('foo', {
    path: ['/foo/:param1', '/bar/:param1'],
    ...
  }

[cmather]

What's the use case?

[domarty]

Off the top of my head: supporting legacy URLs.

[grabbou]

To support legacy URLs, we should rather create another option, called legacy that automatically redirects from every route specified there to path. The solution above will allow to enter that two URLs at the same time which is not definitely what we might expect.

[trinisofttechnologies]

+1

I have an app, which uses same thing for various route, just minor changes in the helpers

for example

1. http://sharestuff.io/share/W8vJRKnz7naNTwJFb (this is a share link, view only mode)
2. http://sharestuff.io/board/W8vJRKnz7naNTwJFb (If I am a user, I have access to read / write)
3. http://sharestuff.io/embed/W8vJRKnz7naNTwJFb (I can use this link as iframe, and would not show, the menu bar)

So, for now, I have to write the same thing 3 times instead of once, and would reduce the code base.

Just a little hint. Thanks

[LeNiglo]

Hey !

Any updates on this one ?

A use case could simply be to make these routes the same :

• app.meteor.com/
• app.meteor.com/home

You can do something like this to match the routes :

this.route('home', {
    path: /^(\/home|\/)$/
});

But the issue is that I'm not able to use :

<a href="{{ pathFor 'home' }}">Home</a>

As the path is a REGEX

This proposed path format (using arrays) would be a great help in my opinion. (and pathFor would take the first element in the array)