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Reading 08 - Express Routing & Connected API

• routes can be handled in modules, what’s the impact?

  • server now has a VERY truncated use, shows the possible route groupings and middleware services
  • data models and routes are kept in their own segregated areas
  • index is just a landing ‘page’, no other use

addtional resources

articles

• using express routing
  • app.all handles all methods for a provided route
  • path-to-regex is used on routing so you can have multiple matches available, not just litteral
  • Route Parameters (alphaNumeric ONLY)

    Route path: /users/:userId/books/:bookId
    Request URL: http://localhost:3000/users/34/books/8989
    req.params: { "userId": "34", "bookId": "8989" }
    

• express routing
  • router is in express 4.0, acts as a smaller express app
  • let’s you make custom sub-routes and modularize them
  • used like middleware app.use('/foo', router)

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