Helpers for reusable code

So far, each of the pages that we have rendered display their viewModel data perfectly, but that pesky sidebar still remains blank. We're going to fix this by creating a few modules for the sidebar content by implementing them as helper modules. These helper modules will be used repeatedly by various parts of our application and don't necessarily belong to the controller folder or the server folder. So, we'll just create a new home called helpers and store these modules there.

Note

As we are just loading temporary fixture data into our view models, the data we set up in the helpers as well as the controllers will all be replaced with actual live data in the next chapter once we implement MongoDB.

The sidebar module

First, we will create a module for the entire sidebar. This module will be responsible for calling multiple other modules to populate viewModel for each section of the sidebar. As we are going to be populating each page's own viewModel with data specifically...