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Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with GraphQL and React Taking React from frontend to full-stack with GraphQL and Apollo

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077880
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sebastian Grebe Sebastian Grebe
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Building the Stack
2. Chapter 1: Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up GraphQL with Express.js 4. Chapter 3: Connecting to the Database 5. Section 2: Building the Application
6. Chapter 4: Hooking Apollo into React 7. Chapter 5: Reusable React Components and React Hooks 8. Chapter 6: Authentication with Apollo and React 9. Chapter 7: Handling Image Uploads 10. Chapter 8: Routing in React 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Server-Side Rendering 12. Chapter 10: Real-Time Subscriptions 13. Chapter 11: Writing Tests for React and Node.js 14. Section 3: Preparing for Deployment
15. Chapter 12: Continuous Deployment with CircleCI and AWS 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Routing in Express.js

Understanding routing is essential to extending our backend code. In this section, we are going to play through some simple routing examples.

In general, routing handles how and where an application responds to specific endpoints and methods.

In Express.js, one path can respond to different HTTP methods and can have multiple handler functions. These handler functions are executed one by one in the order they were specified in the code. A path can be a simple string, but also a complex regular expression or pattern.

When you're using multiple handler functions – either provided as an array or as multiple parameters – be sure to pass next to every callback function. When you call next, you hand over the execution from one callback function to the next function in the row. These functions can also be middleware. We'll cover this in the next section.

Here is a simple example. Replace this with the current app.get line:

app.get...
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