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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node Build fast web applications for handling any kind of data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788395083
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Up and Running 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Introducing Express 5. Templating 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. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks 12. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Controllers


A controller can be defined as an entity that will be responsible for manipulating models and initiating the View render process with the data received from the corresponding models. In the code we have developed so far, we can see that the express router instance is used to tie functions to a corresponding route. These functions are nothing but controllers.

For every route that we create in our router, the following two parameters are necessary:

  • The first parameter is the string for the route itself, which is /images/:image_id
  • The second parameter is a controller function that will be executed when that route is accessed

For any route that has anything to do with images, we rely on the image controller. Likewise, any route that has anything to do with the home page relies on the home controller, and so on.

The steps we will take to define our controllers in our app are purely organizational and based on personal preference. We created our controllers as modules so that our router...

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