Route Basics

Routes - Telling the App what to do

Our application is supposed to have two "screens":

• "home" screen
• Display screen user information To make our application work we have to tell it what urls to use for those two screens.

1. Open the server.js file
2. Define the route for the search screen
   • Add the HTTP method which will be used
   • Add the "path"
   • Return the view you want the application to display in the response

app.get('/', (req, res) => {   
   
   res.render('index', {user_id: app.get('accessToken').getUser().principalID});   
});

4. Define a basic routes for the screen to display user information

app.post('/request', (req, res) => {  
    let fields = {
            "needed": req.body.needed,
            "userID": req.body.userID,
            "ItemOCLCNumber": req.body.ItemOCLCNumber,
            "ItemTitle": req.body.ItemTitle,
            "ItemAuthor": req.body.ItemAuthor,
            "ItemMediaType": req.body.ItemMediaType,
        }; 
    res.render('display-request');
});