Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

The create expense API

For the implementation of the create expense API that will allow creating new expenses in the database, we will first add a POST route, as shown in the following code.

mern-expense-tracker/server/routes/expense.routes.js:

router.route('/api/expenses')  .post(authCtrl.requireSignin, expenseCtrl.create)

A POST request to this route at /api/expenses will first ensure that the requesting user is signed in with the requireSignin method from the auth controllers, before invoking the create method to add a new expense record in the database. This create method is defined in the following code.

mern-expense-tracker/server/controllers/expense.controller.js:

const create = async (req, res) =  {  try { req.body.recorded_by = req.auth._id ...