Generate URLs for routes

[slavafomin]

Hello!

It looks like Sails doesn't provide a way to generate URLs for routes. It means, that developer needs to provide URLs in several places of the application (in route configuration, in links, in scripts, etc). This dramatically breaks the DRY principle. I do believe that URL generation is a very important aspect of a router component for any solid web framework. For example Symfony 2 and Angular.js knows how to do this.

In order to implement this we will need a way to specify unique names for routes and URL generator should be both available as a service and as a view helper.

What do you think?

[slavafomin]

Hello @tjwebb, I think you misunderstood my issue. I were taking about a way to generate URLs to the specified routes dynamically to use them in the views (or controllers). Please see this chapter for example: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/routing.html#generating-urls-from-a-template.

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Thanks so much for your help!