Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Fetching users not followed

We will implement a new API on the server to query the database and fetch the list of users the current user is not following. This route will be defined as follows.

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

router.route('/api/users/findpeople/:userId')   .get(authCtrl.requireSignin, userCtrl.findPeople)

In the findPeople controller method, we will query the User collection in the database to find the users that are not in the current user's following list.

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

const findPeople = async (req, res) => {  let following = req.profile.following  following.push(req.profile._id)  try {    let users = await User.find({ _id:{ $nin : following }})                          .select('name')    res.json(users) }catch(err){ ...