Generate Typed Python URL Helpers from React Router Routes

Generate strongly-typed Python helpers (TypedDict param objects + overloads) from a React Router v6+ route tree. This is useful when a Python backend, worker, or test suite needs to construct URLs that stay in sync with a JavaScript/TypeScript frontend using React Router.

Take a look at this project for a live usage example.

How it works

Given a React Router project, the CLI either:

• Auto-detects your package manager (bun, pnpm, or npm) and runs <package-manager> react-router routes --json (if you pass --directory), or
• Reads a pre-generated JSON file (if you pass --json-file)

It walks the returned route objects and produces a Python module containing:

• RoutePaths Literal of every concrete route pattern (e.g. /users/:userId?, /files/*).
• Per-route TypedDict classes containing snake_case parameter keys.
• Overloaded react_router_path() to build a relative path with validation + percent-encoding.
• Overloaded react_router_url() to prepend a base URL (explicit argument or BASE_URL env var).
• Optional url_params argument on both functions to append query string parameters.

Installation

Using uv (recommended):

uv add react-router-routes

Prerequisites

Your JS project must have react-router and a package manager with the react-router routes --json command available (React Router v6+ data APIs). The tool automatically detects your package manager (bun, pnpm, or npm) based on lockfiles and availability. The Python process must run inside (or have access to) that project directory so the CLI can execute the command.

CLI Usage

The script entry point is named react-router-routes (see pyproject.toml).

Two ways to supply routes:

1. Have the tool invoke <package-manager> react-router routes --json by providing a directory (auto-detects bun, pnpm, or npm):

react-router-routes ./routes_typing.py --directory ./frontend

1. Provide an existing JSON file (output of pnpm react-router routes --json):

react-router-routes ./routes_typing.py --json-file tests/react-router.json

Then import the generated module in Python code:

from routes_typing import react_router_path, react_router_url, RoutePaths

# Basic path generation
react_router_path("/users/:userId", {"user_id": 123})  # -> '/users/123'

# URL generation with base URL
react_router_url(
    "/files/*", {"splat": "docs/readme.md"}, base_url="https://example.com"
)
# -> 'https://example.com/files/docs/readme.md'

# Adding query parameters with url_params
react_router_path(
    "/users/:userId", {"user_id": 123}, url_params={"tab": "profile", "edit": "true"}
)
# -> '/users/123?tab=profile&edit=true'

react_router_url(
    "/home", base_url="https://example.com", url_params={"page": "1", "sort": "name"}
)
# -> 'https://example.com/home?page=1&sort=name'

Environment Variables

• BASE_URL (optional) – If set and you omit base_url when calling react_router_url, this value is prepended. If missing the function returns the path and logs a warning.
• LOG_LEVEL (optional) – Standard Python logging level (INFO, DEBUG, etc.).

MIT License

This project was created from iloveitaly/python-package-template