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Advanced Node.js Development

By : Andrew Mead
Book Image

Advanced Node.js Development

By: Andrew Mead

Overview of this book

Advanced Node.js Development is a practical, project-based book that provides you with all you need to progress as a Node.js developer. Node is a ubiquitous technology on the modern web, and an essential part of any web developer’s toolkit. If you're looking to create real-world Node applications, or you want to switch careers or launch a side-project to generate some extra income, then you're in the right place. This book was written around a single goal: turning you into a professional Node developer capable of developing, testing, and deploying real-world production applications. There's no better time to dive in. According to the 2018 Stack Overflow Survey, Node is in the top ten for back-end popularity and back-end salary. This book is built from the ground up around the latest version of Node.js (version 9.x.x). You'll be learning all the cutting-edge features available only in the latest software versions. This book delivers advanced skills that you need to become a professional Node developer. Along this journey you'll create your own API, you'll build a full real-time web app and create projects that apply the latest Async and Await technologies. Andrew Mead maps everything out for you in this book so that you can learn how to build powerful Node.js projects in a comprehensive, easy-to-follow package designed to get you up and running quickly.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

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 all we need to do is take our Mongoose configuration code right here:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/TodoApp');

Cut it out, and to move it over into mongoose.js. Now, we need to export something. What we're going to...