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Creating post API

On the server, we will define an API to create the post in the database, starting with declaring a route to accept a POST request at /api/posts/new/:userId in mern-social/server/routes/post.routes.js:

router.route('/api/posts/new/:userId')  .post(authCtrl.requireSignin, postCtrl.create)

The create method in the post.controller.js will use the formidable module to access the fields and the image file, if any, as we did for the user profile photo update.

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

const create = (req, res, next) => {  let form = new formidable.IncomingForm()  form.keepExtensions = true  form.parse(req, (err, fields, files) => {    if (err) {      return res.status(400).json({ error: "Image could not be uploaded" ...