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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node Build scalable and powerful web apps with modern web stack: MongoDB, Vue, Node.js, and Express

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831147
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing MEVN FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an Express Application 3. Introducing MongoDB 4. Introducing REST APIs 5. Building the Real Application 6. Building Authentication with passport.js 7. Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js 8. Introducing Vuex 9. Testing an MEVN Application 10. Going Live 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating view files for the Express.js application

We learned about how to create controllers in the last section. In this section, we will talk about how to add and customize view files. If you remember, we have this code in controllers/users.js:

module.exports.controller = (app) => {
// get users page
app.get('/users', (req, res) => {
res.render('index', { title: 'Users' });
})
}

Let's change a line that renders the index file to this:

module.exports.controller = (app) => {
// get users page
app.get('/users', (req, res) => {
res.render('users', { title: 'Users' });
})
}

This means that the controller wants to load the users file, which is in the views folder. Let's go ahead and create a users.pug file in the views folder.

After creating the file, paste in the following code; this is the...

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