MessageBoard

Odin Project: message board

https://www.theodinproject.com/lessons/node-path-nodejs-mini-message-board

Implementation

The view folder contains each individual page, including index (the home page), form (to submit a new message), details (individual message detail display), and 404 (for page not found error).

public contains any images or css styling, if applicable.

app uses Express to serve pages, and uses EJS as the view engine. The app.get serves each page to the user.

• req represents the HTTP request object
• res is the response object used to send a response to the client
• app.get defines a route for handling GET requests to a specific path
• app.post defines a route for handling POST requests to a specific path
• app.use(middleware) registers a middleware function that can process requests for all routes or a specific path
• app.listen starts the server and listens for incoming requests on the specified port
• express.static is a middleware function that serves staic files from the specified directory
• express.urlencoded is a middleware function that parses incoming request bodies with URL-encoded data
• res.render renders a view template and sends the generated HTML to the client
• res.status sets the HTTP status code for the response
• res.redirect redirects the client to a different URL

EJS (Embedded JavaScript) is a templating engine for rendering HTML with JavaScript. It allows you to embed JS code within HTML to create dynamic views.