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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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It is nice that we started keeping the created pages in the database. However, it will also be great to show the pages to the users so that they can visit them and add comments. In order to do that, we have to modify our API so that it returns the page information. If you look at the preceding code, you will see that there is a GET case that was left empty. The following codes gets all the pages, sorts them by date, and sends them to the browser:

case 'GET':
  getDatabaseConnection(function(db) {
    var collection = db.collection('pages');
    collection.find({ 
      $query: { },
      $orderby: {
        date: -1
      }
    }).toArray(function(err, result) {
      result.forEach(function(value, index, arr) {
        arr[index].id = value._id;
        delete arr[index].userId;
      });
      response({
        pages: result
      }, res);
    });
  });
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Before sending the JSON object to the frontend, we will delete the ID of the creator. The name...

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