Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

The related media list API

We will implement an API endpoint in the backend to retrieve the list of related media from the database. The API will receive a GET request at '/api/media/related/:mediaId', and the route will be declared with the other media routes, as follows:

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

router.route('/api/media/related/:mediaId')        .get(mediaCtrl.listRelated)

The :mediaId parameter in the route path will be processed by the mediaByID method implemented in The video API section of Chapter 11, Building a Media Streaming Application. It retrieves the media corresponding to this ID from the database and attaches it to the request object, so it can be accessed in the next method. The listRelated controller method ...