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Node.js By Example

You're reading from   Node.js By Example Learn to use Node.js by creating a fully functional social network

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395711
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Node.js Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Architecting the Project 3. Managing Assets 4. Developing the Model-View-Controller Layers 5. Managing Users 6. Adding Friendship Capabilities 7. Posting Content 8. Creating Pages and Events 9. Tagging, Sharing, and Liking 10. Adding Real-time Chat 11. Testing the User Interface Index

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We should update the API method that returns the pages as objects. Along with the title and description, we have to present a new comments property. Let's open backend/api/pages.js and create a function to fetch comments:

var getComments = function(pageId, callback) {
  var collection = db.collection('content');
  collection.find({ 
    $query: {
      pageId: pageId
    },
    $orderby: {
      date: -1
    }
  }).toArray(function(err, result) {
    result.forEach(function(value, index, arr) {
      delete arr[index].userId;
      delete arr[index]._id;
    });
    callback(result);
  });
}

The key moment in the preceding method is the forming of the MongoDB query. This is the place where we filter the posts and fetch only those that are made for the page that matches the passed ID. The following is the updated code corresponding to the GET request:

getDatabaseConnection(function(db) {
  var query;
  if(params && params.id) {
    query = { _id: ObjectId(params...
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