Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

The search products API

We can define a search products API that will take a GET request at /api/products?search=value&category=value, with query parameters in the URL to query the Products collection with the provided search text and category values. The route for this search API will be defined as follows:

mern-marketplace/server/routes/product.routes.js:

router.route('/api/products')      .get(productCtrl.list)

The list controller method will first process the query parameters in the request, then find products in the given category, if any, with names that partially match with the provided search text. This list method is defined as shown in the following code:

mern-marketplace/server/controllers/product.controller.js:

const list = async (req, ...