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Adding server-side routing support

As well as having a common way of working with the database, our incoming API requests are all going to be very similar in terms of endpoints. While writing this book, I tried to put together snippets of code that could be reused later on. One such snippet is the way we handle Express routing. The server-side code we put together in Chapter 4, The MEAN Stack – Building a Photo Gallery, was one such area, specifically the code for routing. We can bring this code in pretty much exactly as we wrote it all those chapters ago.

Here's a quick reminder of what the code looks like. First, we have our IRouter interface:

export interface IRouter {  AddRoute(route: any): void;}

Then, we have our routing engine—the code ...