Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Server-side code

On the server side, we divided the code according to functionality, by separating code that defines business models from code implementing routing logic, and controller code that responds to client requests at these routes. Within the server folder, we maintained three main sections, as shown in the following structure:

  | -- server/    | --- controllers/    | --- models/    | --- routes/

In this structure, each folder contains code with a specific purpose:

• models: This folder is meant to contain all of the Mongoose schema model definitions in separate files, with each file representing a single model.
• routes: This folder contains all routes that allow the client to interact with the server, with routes placed in separate files that ...