Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Fetching user posts in the view

We will use the list-posts-by-user API in the frontend to fetch the related posts and display these posts in the profile view. To use this API, we will add a fetch method to the frontend, as follows.

mern-social/client/post/api-post.js:

const listByUser = async (req, res) => {  try {    let posts = await Post.find({postedBy: req.profile._id})                          .populate('comments.postedBy', '_id name')                          .populate('postedBy', '_id name')                          .sort('-created')                          .exec()    res.json(posts)  } catch(err) {    return res.status(400).json({      error: errorHandler.getErrorMessage(err)    })  }}

This fetch method will load the required posts for PostList, which is added to the Profile view. We will update the Profile component so that it defines a loadPosts ...