railsware/js-routes

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1698 stars · 158 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem that generates a JavaScript (and TypeScript definition) file exposing all Rails named routes as callable helper functions. It lets frontend code build Rails URLs without duplicating route logic.

Use cases

• generate URLs in JavaScript from Rails routes
• share Rails route helpers with a JS frontend
• avoid hardcoding API paths in JavaScript
• get TypeScript autocompletion for Rails routes
• keep JS route links in sync with Rails routing config

When to choose

• you have a Rails app with a JavaScript frontend that needs named route URLs
• you want route definitions to stay in sync automatically between Rails and JS
• you want typed route helpers via generated .d.ts files

When to avoid

• your project does not use Ruby on Rails
• your frontend is fully decoupled from Rails and consumes only a fixed API
• you rely on legacy Sprockets setups without migration plans

Facets

library · maturity active

routing templating developer-tools web-development backend frontend developer-tools ruby rails ruby-gem url-helpers typescript-definitions webpacker sprockets nodejs web-server

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