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Rapid Prototyping Web Applications Using Node.js and MongoDB

Errata for Rapid Prototyping Web Applications Using Node.js and MongoDB

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Other Digital Version 13:54
13mins 54 seconds

The example configure.js is missing an extra parenthesis on line 32 which will result in the following error:

/movieqslides/server/configure.js:34
routes.initialize(app, new express.Router());
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier
at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:73:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:443:25)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
at Module.require (module.js:365:17)
at require (module.js:384:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/movieqslides/server.js:2:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)

Line should read:

app.use('/public/', express['static'](path.join(__dirname, '/public')))

 Jon Hathaway  May 21, 2015 
Other Digital Version 48:44
48mins 44secs

In the controller.js, during the insert of the mongo document for a new user, on line 43 there is a technical error.

The line needs to be changed to the following so that the _id can be returned from the document insert.

req.session.userId = users._id;

 Jon Hathaway  May 21, 2015