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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Krol Jason Krol
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack 2. Getting Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services 11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

Iterating by adding an image removal capability


At this point, I think our application is pretty awesome, but there's something missing that's nagging me. During testing, I've been creating all kinds of new images and uploading them to the application but it's starting to get a bit cluttered and messy. It dawned on me that the most obvious thing that's missing is the ability to remove an image!

In reality, I left out this feature on purpose so that we could use this opportunity to incorporate a completely new set of functionality that touches almost every area of the application. This seemingly simple addition is actually going to require the following changes:

  • Update routes.js to include a new route to handle Delete requests

  • Update controllers/image.js to include a new function for the route

    This should not only remove the image from the database, but also delete the file and all related comments

  • Update the image.handlebars HTML template to include a Remove button

  • Update the public/js/scripts...

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