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Node.js By Example

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Node.js By Example

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Node.js By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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It is nice that we started keeping the created pages in the database. However, it will also be great to show the pages to the users so that they can visit them and add comments. In order to do that, we have to modify our API so that it returns the page information. If you look at the preceding code, you will see that there is a GET case that was left empty. The following codes gets all the pages, sorts them by date, and sends them to the browser:

case 'GET':
  getDatabaseConnection(function(db) {
    var collection = db.collection('pages');
    collection.find({ 
      $query: { },
      $orderby: {
        date: -1
      }
    }).toArray(function(err, result) {
      result.forEach(function(value, index, arr) {
        arr[index].id = value._id;
        delete arr[index].userId;
      });
      response({
        pages: result
      }, res);
    });
  });
break;

Before sending the JSON object to the frontend, we will delete the ID of the creator. The name...