I'm really glad we have URLPattern, as it's a fairly mundane task that shouldn't need us to bring in special tools. I can't imagining argue that the plarform shouldn't come well equipped for basic cases like this. Ideally a native implementation will be able to use SIMD and be faster too, which is a nice to have.
Unfortunately cases like here in the article are an example of why URLPattern had enormous push back during development. It's not the worst thing in the world to run three or four patterns one after another. But generally, doing a linear search for the right pattern doesn't scale well at all! If there's a dozen routes, running pattern after pattern is probably not ideal!
We can look at Hono routers, for example. Which has a bunch of different examples, most of which will one-shot a bunch of patterns at once. RegExpRouter, TrieRouter. There's good write-ups for the tradeoffs across them. But they all take a bunch of routes up front, and combine them into a single matcher, attempting to re-use work across patterns. https://hono.dev/docs/concepts/routers
Really good we have URLPattern, but this is the anti-use-case, that almost convinced folks not to make URLPattern at all.
Unfortunately cases like here in the article are an example of why URLPattern had enormous push back during development. It's not the worst thing in the world to run three or four patterns one after another. But generally, doing a linear search for the right pattern doesn't scale well at all! If there's a dozen routes, running pattern after pattern is probably not ideal!
We can look at Hono routers, for example. Which has a bunch of different examples, most of which will one-shot a bunch of patterns at once. RegExpRouter, TrieRouter. There's good write-ups for the tradeoffs across them. But they all take a bunch of routes up front, and combine them into a single matcher, attempting to re-use work across patterns. https://hono.dev/docs/concepts/routers
Really good we have URLPattern, but this is the anti-use-case, that almost convinced folks not to make URLPattern at all.