Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Listing popular media

To retrieve specific lists of media from the database, we need to set up the relevant APIs on the server. For popular media, we will set up a route that receives a GET request at /api/media/popular. The route will be declared as follows.

mern-mediastream/server/routes/media.routes.js:

 router.route('/api/media/popular')          .get(mediaCtrl.listPopular)

A GET request to this URL will invoke the listPopular method. The listPopular controller method will query the Media collection and retrieve nine media documents that have the highest views in the whole collection. The listPopular method is defined as follows.

mern-mediastream/server/controllers/media.controller.js:

const listPopular = async (req, res) => {  try{ let media = ...