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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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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

Adding CRUD to the controllers


Now that our schemas are defined and our models are ready, we need to start actually using them throughout our application by updating our controllers with various CRUD methods where necessary.

Tip

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete.

Up until this point, our controllers have consisted of only fixture, or fake, data so we can prove that our controllers are working, and our view models were wired up to our templates. The next logical step in our development is to populate our view models with data directly from MongoDB. It would be even better if we could just pass our Mongoose models right to our templates as the viewModel itself!

The home controller

If you recall from the Updating the Home controller section of Chapter 6, Controllers and View Models, we originally created viewModel in our home controller that consisted of an array of JavaScript objects that were just placeholder fixture data:

var viewModel = {
    images: [
        {
            uniqueId...
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