Example of Tiger routing in plain JS (for Titanium Mobile)

routeexample-app.js

// this sets the background color of the master UIView (when there are no windows/tab groups on it)
Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#000');
 
// create tab group
var tabGroup = Titanium.UI.createTabGroup();
//
// create base UI tab and root window
//
var win1 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({  
    title:'Tab 1',
    backgroundColor:'#fff'
});
var tab1 = Titanium.UI.createTab({  
    icon:'KS_nav_views.png',
    title:'Tab 1',
    window:win1
});
 
var label1 = Titanium.UI.createLabel({
  color:'#999',
  text:'I am Window 1',
	font:{fontSize:20,fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue'},
	textAlign:'center',
	width:'auto'
});
 
win1.add(label1);
 
//
// create controls tab and root window
//
var win2 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({  
    title:'Tab 2',
    backgroundColor:'#fff'
});
var tab2 = Titanium.UI.createTab({  
    icon:'KS_nav_ui.png',
    title:'Tab 2',
    window:win2
});
 
var label2 = Titanium.UI.createLabel({
	color:'#999',
	text:'I am Window 2',
	font:{fontSize:20,fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue'},
	textAlign:'center',
	width:'auto'
});
 
win2.add(label2);
 
 
 
//
//  add tabs
//
tabGroup.addTab(tab1);  
tabGroup.addTab(tab2);  
 
 
// open tab group
tabGroup.open();
 
 
 
 
var Tiger = require('/lib/tiger'),
	Route = require('/lib/tiger.route');
 
var routeController = new Tiger.Controller();
 
routeController.routes({
	'/window/:id': function(params) {
		tabGroup.setActiveTab(params.id - 1);
	},
	'/alert/:message': function(params) {
		alert(params.message);
	},
});
Tiger.Route.setup({ history: true });
 
win1.addEventListener('androidback', routeController.back);
Tiger.Route.bind('navigate', function() { routeController.debug('navigating path: ' + Tiger.Route.path); });
Tiger.Route.History.bind('change', function() { routeController.debug('path: ' + Tiger.Route.path); });
 
label1.addEventListener('click', function() { routeController.navigate('/window/2'); });
label2.addEventListener('click', function() { routeController.navigate('/window/1'); });
label2.addEventListener('longpress', function() { routeController.navigate('/alert/longpress'); });

Routes can only be setup once, but any controller can call .navigate or any code can call Tiger.Route.navigate . Place all libs in Resources/libs .

For more examples and details on complex routes, see: http://spinejs.com/docs/routing . Select JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript in the upper right, to see the examples in plain JS.

The main difference in Tiger's routing is that I changed the HTML5 history into a Spine/Tiger Model -- essentially a stack of path history which fires events. I also added the .back function to pop paths off the stack to make historical navigation easier -- (and during backwards navigation, Tiger.Route.backward = true). Otherwise the code is identical.

What is the proper way to pass multiple arguments when navigating to a route. Can't figure it out. Check the following gist
https://gist.github.com/stongo/5162473

To clarify, I saw in your examples you pass the arguments write in the navigate string, but I was hoping to be able to pass objects/arrays as arguments.
The spine.js documentation allows passing arguments like navigate(route, args)

Figured it out. Had to use globs in route path ... 'helloworld/_string/_destination'
Updated my gist with working code now

hrm, only somewhat works. combines the arguments in to one parameter sometimes ...

You can stringify the array before navigating, and then parse it in the router. Here is an example from one of my apps:

Controller:

@navigate '/invoices', @invoice_id, "addproducts", (JSON.stringify @selected)

Router:

  '/invoices/:id/addproducts/*list': (params) =>
    @Invoice or= require '/controllers/invoice'
    @Controller = new @Invoice(params.id)
    @Controller.addProduct JSON.parse params.list

Stringifying isn't awesome for performance, but it does limit routes to reasonable complexity (like with URLs on the web), and is better than sending an app-level event -- Ti.App events stringify the event object and pass it over the "Kroll bridge" through Java and back.