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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 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 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

Resource Creation Endpoint - POST /todos

In this section, you're going to create your HTTP POST route for adding new Todos. Before we dive into that, we're first going to refactor everything we have in server.js. We have database configuration stuff which should live somewhere else and we have our models, which should also live in separate files. The only thing we want in server.js is our Express route handlers.

Refactoring the server.js file to create POST todos route

To get started, inside of the server folder, we're going to make a new folder called db, and inside of the db folder we'll make a file where all of this Mongoose configuration will happen. I'm going to call that file mongoose.js, and...

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