Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

API for posts by a user

To retrieve posts that have been shared by a specific user, we need to add a route endpoint that will receive the request for these posts and respond accordingly to the requesting client- side.

On the backend, we will define another post-related route that will receive a query to return posts by a specific user, as follows.

mern-social/server/routes/post.routes.js:

router.route('/api/posts/by/:userId')    .get(authCtrl.requireSignin, postCtrl.listByUser)

The listByUser controller method in post.controller.js will query the Post collection to find posts that have a matching reference in the postedBy field to the user specified in the userId param in the route. The listByUser controller method will look as follows.

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