How can I separate and group the routes into files and folders?

[lautiamkok]

I wonder how can we organise the simple routes below when they get bigger when the app grows.

// Configure your routes
$app->set('routes', function (RouteCollector $r) {
    $r->map('/', null, function () {
        return new Response('Hello, world');
    });

    $r->map('/hello/{name}', null, function ($name) {
        return new Response('Hello, ' . $name . '!');
    });
});

For instance, with Slim framework, I can do this when we have routes to be grouped and stored in different files,

$app = new Slim();
require '../app/routes/session.php';
require '../app/routes/member.php';
require '../app/routes/admin.php';
$app->run();

url: http://www.slimframework.com/2011/09/24/how-to-organize-a-large-slim-framework-application.html

Can this be done with Nice?

[tyler-sommer]

Nice is not too opinionated on how you do things, so you could definitely do something very similar to your Slim example:

$app->set('routes', function (RouteCollector $r) use ($app) {
    require $app->getRootDir().'/app/routes/session.php';
    require $app->getRootDir().'/app/routes/member.php';
    require $app->getRootDir().'/app/routes/admin.php';
});

Then in, for example, session.php:

# session.php
/** @var Nice\Router\RouteCollector $r */
$r->map(....);
$r->map(....);

However, the Nice docs do have a few points on growing your application and ensuring that future maintenance is not a pain. For example, using controller classes rather than Closure actions, and implementing a custom route collector.

[lautiamkok]

Thanks for the reply and the links. Glad to know that Nice is so flexible! Well done.