I’ve made a complementary route handling framework for Yoshua Wuyts' JavaScript SPA (Single Page Application) framework Choo: choo-routehandler. For those unfamiliar with Choo, it’s a view framework similar to React and Marko, although with a strong focus on simplicity and hackability and working directly with the DOM instead of a virtual DOM (unlike React).

Basically, the motivation for making the framework was that I found myself implementing the same pattern in my Choo apps: To load data before rendering a view corresponding to a route and to require authentication before accessing certain routes. I didn’t find any good way to handle this baked into Choo, even though it has a rather good routing system built into it. It was also tricky to use Choo’s standard effects/reducers system to implement handling of route change, since these are asynchronously triggered and I could end up handling the same route change several times as a result.