HashbangJS

A simple and flexible hashbang routing framework

I made this because other frameworks were either too limited in syntax (most of them) or performed badly (the rest of them).
HashbangJS takes a different approach by "precompiling" routes in a format that is both flexible and performs well. You pay a one time price in performance at the start to gain useful abilities and higher performance while running.
Contact me on github: https://github.com/vanderlee/HashbangJS

Features

• Supports easy text syntax or generatable tree syntax.
• Lets you specify repeating, optional and required elements in a route.
• Supports both divider (#!sort/id/page/123) and assignment (#!sort=id/page=123) or any combination
• Lets you specify randomly ordered elements; if you want #!mail/inbox/private and #!mail/private/inbox can match the same path.
• Lets you specify many other types of elements, and is extendable if you need more.
• Doesn't rely on jQuery, Dojo or any other framework.
• ...but works with all those frameworks and more (jQuery, Dojo, KnockoutJS, Backbone, ExtJS, AngularJS, Ember, etc…).
• Starts automatically, regardless in which order you program the API.
• Handles configurable hashbang prefixes, #, #!, ##, etc… HashBangJS can even handle multiple prefixes at once.
• Unmap and reset paths if you need to change routing.
• Add multiple callbacks to a single route.
• Add callbacks to execute before and after matching a specific route.
• Add callbacks before and after any match; useful for logging and debugging.
• Documented: https://github.com/vanderlee/HashbangJS/blob/master/README.md
• Unittested: test.html
• And I'm using it in a production environment myself!

QUnit test

Simple examples

1. Path
2. Path short
3. Path sort
4. Path order
5. Path all
6. Path nothing
7. Path 404