I have supplied you with some code that implements a ticket server and client, nearly identical to what we have done previously. The front end in the public directory uses Vue. The back end in the server directory uses Node, Express, and Mongo.
To get this code running, you'll need to clone this repository.
After you do this, initialize Node and install some packages:
nvm use stable
cd user-authentication
npm init
npm install express mongoose jsonwebtoken cookie-parser
You can then run the server and the app should let you create and delete tickets:
cd server
node server.js
If you examine the code in the server directory, you'll notice that I have refactored the server into separate modules.
Inside of server.js, we require the tickets.js module. Notice we have to give it a relative path by starting with the current directory, which is .
const tickets = require("./tickets.js");
app.use("/api/tickets", tickets);
We also call app.use to configure the API and in one place we declare that all endpoints regarding tickets will use the prefix /api/tickets.
Now, inside of tickets.js, we store all of our code related to the ticket schema, model, and API. It starts with:
const express = require("express");
const router = express.Router();
We then define our routes like this:
router.get('/', async (req, res) => {
router.post('/', async (req, res) => {
router.post('/', async (req, res) => {
And then at the end we export the router:
module.exports = router;
Exporting the router is what allows the server to include and then use it.
Organizing our back end code into modules will make it easier to maintain.