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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287527
Length 300 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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. Single-Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

Routers and controllers


So far, you have your server.js file and a configure module that is used to wire up all of the necessary middleware for the application. The next step is to implement proper routers and the necessary controllers.

The router is going to be a map of each of the available URL paths for the app. Every route on the server will correspond to a function in a controller. Here is what our routes table will look like for the particular application we are writing:

GET  /(index) - home.index (render the homepage of the site)
GET  /images/image_id - image.index (render the page for a specific image)
POST /images - image.create (when a user submits and uploads a new image)
POST /images/image_id/like - image.like (when a user clicks the Like button)
POST /images/image_id/comment - image.comment (when a user posts a comment)

You can see that we are handling two different GET requests and three different POST requests. In addition, we have two main controllers: home and image. Controllers...

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