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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

Getting an individual resource – GET /todos/:id


In this section, you are going to create an API route for fetching an individual Todo. Now, most of this section is going to be a challenge but there is one thing I want to show you before we get started, and that is how to fetch a variable that's passed in via the URL. Now, as I mentioned, the structure for this URL is going to be a GET request, /todos, then we're going to dive into the Todos, fetching an individual item where the ID gets passed, such as /todos/12345. This means that we need to make the ID part of the URL dynamic. I want to be able to fetch that value, whatever a user happens to pass in, and use it to make the query. The query that we set up in the mongoose-queries file like User.findById one to fetch the todo by Id.

Now in order to get that done, let's go ahead inside server.js file and call app.get, passing in the URL.

Taking on the challenge

The first part we already know, /todos/, but now what we need is a URL parameter....