Advanced Node.js Development

Configuring the POST route

Now, we have a very basic server. All we have to do is start configuring our routes, and as I promised, the one we're going to be focusing on in this section is the POST route. This is going to let us create new Todos. Now, inside of your REST APIs, there's the basic CRUD operations, CRUD being Create, Read, Update, and Delete.

When you want to create a resource, you use the POST HTTP method, and you send that resource as the body. This means that when we want to make a new Todo, we're going to send a JSON object over to the server. It's going to have a text property, and the server is going to get that text property, create the new model, and send the complete model with the ID, the completed property, and completedAt ...