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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Getting an individual resource – GET /todos/:id

In this section, you are going to create an API route for fetching an individual Todo. Now, most of this section is going to be a challenge but there is one thing I want to show you before we get started, and that is how to fetch a variable that's passed in via the URL. Now, as I mentioned, the structure for this URL is going to be a GET request, /todos, then we're going to dive into the Todos, fetching an individual item where the ID gets passed, such as /todos/12345. This means that we need to make the ID part of the URL dynamic. I want to be able to fetch that value, whatever a user happens to pass in, and use it to make the query. The query that we set up in the mongoose-queries file like User.findById one to fetch the todo by Id.

Now in order to get that done, let's go ahead inside server.js file...

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