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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node Build fast web applications for handling any kind of data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788395083
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
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Preface
1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Up and Running 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Introducing Express 5. Templating with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-Based Services 11. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks 12. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Rendering the views


Let's take a minute to do a quick recap and see what we've done up to this point. So far, we have done the following:

  • We createdindex.Handlebars and image.Handlebars, the views for the two main pages of the application
  • We created layouts/main.handelbars, the main layout file for every page in the application
  • We created partials/comments.Handlebars, popular.Handlebars, and stats.Handlebars
  • We created a global timeago Handlebars helper

So far, so good; however, none of these views actually do anything, receive any viewModels, or even appear when you run the application! Let's make a few quick minor modifications to our controllers to get our views to render properly.

Open /controllers/home.js so that you can edit the home controller module. Update the contents of that file so that it looks identical to the following block of code:

module.exports = { 
    index: (req, res)=> { 
        res.render('index'); 
    } 
}; 

Instead of performing res.send, which just sends a simple...

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