Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Newsfeed API for posts

To implement the Newsfeed-specific API, we need to add the route endpoint that will receive the request for Newsfeed posts and respond accordingly to the requesting client- side.

On the backend, we need to define the route path that will receive the request for retrieving Newsfeed posts for a specific user, as shown in the following code.

server/routes/post.routes.js

router.route('/api/posts/feed/:userId')  .get(authCtrl.requireSignin, postCtrl.listNewsFeed)

We are using the :userID parameter in this route to specify the currently signed-in user. We will utilize the userByID controller method in user.controller to fetch the user details, as we did previously, and append these to the request object that is accessed in ...