Introduction

The next step in the MDN express tutorial sets up all the routes and controllers you’re going to need when creating the Library project. This project is designed using the MVC (Model, View, Controller) architecture. In a previous step you set up all the Models (or Database Objects) and in the next step you’ll be setting up several different views.

If you remember from our earlier lessons, the controller is the code that sits between the models and the views. It determines which view is going to be shown, as well as which information is going to populate that view. In this lesson, you will copy and paste quite a bit of repetitive code to get the controllers and routes set up, but be sure to read everything in between them! There is a lot of useful information therein.

Lesson overview

This section contains a general overview of topics that you will learn in this lesson.

• Create routes.
• Create route-handler callback functions.
• Create a catalog route module.
• Describe approaches for structuring routes and controllers.
• Set up URL endpoints.

Assignment

Knowledge check

This section contains questions for you to check your understanding of this lesson. If you’re having trouble answering the questions below on your own, review the material above to find the answer.

• How do you define a route function in Express?
• Name four HTTP verbs a route might need to handle.
• What is a route parameter, and what syntax is used to define one in a route handler?
• What is a route-handler callback function commonly called?

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