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Retrieving a post's photo

To retrieve the uploaded photo, we will also set up a photo route URL that returns the photo with a specific post.

mern-social/server/routes/post.routes.js:

router.route('/api/posts/photo/:postId').get(postCtrl.photo)

The photo controller will return the photo data stored in MongoDB as an image file. 

mern-social/server/controllers/post.controller.js:

const photo = (req, res, next) => {    res.set("Content-Type", req.post.photo.contentType)    return res.send(req.post.photo.data)}

As the photo route uses the :postID parameter, we will set up a postByID controller method to fetch the specific post by its ID before returning to the photo request. We will add the param call to post.routes.js.

mern-social/server/routes/post.routes.js ...