Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Listing all games

In the MERN VR Game application, it will be possible to retrieve a list of all the games in the Game collection from the database using a list games API in the backend. We will implement this API endpoint in the backend by adding a GET route to the game routes, as shown in the following code:

mern-vrgame/server/routes/game.routes.js:

router.route('/api/games')    .get(gameCtrl.list)

A GET request to /api/games will execute the list controller method, which will query the Game collection in the database, to return all the games in the response to the client.

This list controller method will be defined as follows:

mern-vrgame/server/controllers/game.controller.js:

const list = async (req, res) => {  try { let games = await Game.find({}).populate('maker', ...