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practice material for node.js

guide

setup

npm init -y

download all necessary packages

npm i express ejs express-ejs-layouts

install development dependencies

npm i --save-dev nodemon

install database

install mongoDb on your local device npm i mongoose

load environment variables

npm i --save-dev dotenv

check if we are running in production environment

if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
require("dotenv").parse();
}

^^^ this will not work

if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
require("dotenv").config();
}

^^^ this will work

configure heroku create a databse for mongo db on mongo db atlas.

• free aws cluster
• keep everything default

Creating New Routes create authors.js

// All authors route create

router.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.render('authors/index')
})

// New authors route create

    res.render(authors/new)
})

// Create Author

router.post('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('Create')
})

Now we can create the views for the routes

• create an authors folder
• create new file called index.ejs
• create new file called new.ejs

Each one of our routes should be in their own folder. Routes or controllers will have a single file. Views will have a single folder for the files associated with the controller.

create a model

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• create models folder
• create js file using singular of routes ie. /routes/authors => /models/author.js
• in models you can use:

app.use(express.urlencoded({extended: false}))

• allowing us to access all parameters from our form inside our routes
• *** this needs to be ontop of app.use('articles', articleRouter)

router.post('/', (req, res) => {
    const article = new Article({
        req.body.markdown
    })
})