From the blog

Posted 2019-01-24

Registering Module-Specific Routes in Expressive

In Expressive, we have standardized on a file named config/routes.php to contain all your route registrations. A typical file might look something like this:

declare(strict_types=1);

use Zend\Expressive\Csrf\CsrfMiddleware;
use Zend\Expressive\Session\SessionMiddleware;

return function (
    \Zend\Expressive\Application $app,
    \Zend\Expressive\MiddlewareFactory $factory,
    \Psr\Container\ContainerInterface $container
) : void {
    $app->get('/', App\HomePageHandler::class, 'home');

    $app->get('/contact', [
        SessionMiddleware::class,
        CsrfMiddleware::class,
        App\Contact\ContactPageHandler::class
    ], 'contact');
    $app->post('/contact', [
        SessionMiddleware::class,
        CsrfMiddleware::class,
        App\Contact\ProcessContactRequestHandler::class
    ]);
    $app->get(
        '/contact/thank-you',
        App\Contact\ThankYouHandler::class,
        'contact.done'
    );

    $app->get(
        '/blog[/]',
        App\Blog\Handler\LandingPageHandler::class,
        'blog'
    );
    $app->get('/blog/{id:[^/]+\.html', [
        SessionMiddleware::class,
        CsrfMiddleware::class,
        App\Blog\Handler\BlogPostHandler::class,
    ], 'blog.post');
    $app->post('/blog/comment/{id:[^/]+\.html', [
        SessionMiddleware::class,
        CsrfMiddleware::class,
        App\Blog\Handler\ProcessBlogCommentHandler::class,
    ], 'blog.comment');
}

and so on.

These files can get really long, and organizing them becomes imperative.

From the blog

Posted 2016-05-16

Programmatic Expressive

Enrico just returned from phpDay, where he spoke about Expressive and the upcoming Zend Framework 3. One piece of feedback he brought back had to do with how people perceive they should be building Expressive applications: many think, based on our examples, that it's completely configuration driven!

As it turns out, this is far from the truth; we developed our API to mimic that of traditional microframeworks, and then built a configuration layer on top of that to allow making substitutions. However, it's not only possible, but quite fun, to mix and match the two ideas!