Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

User routes

The user routes that are defined in the user.routes.js file will use express.Router() to define route paths with the relevant HTTP methods and assign the corresponding controller function that should be called when these requests are received by the server.

We will keep the user routes simplistic by using the following:

• /api/users for the following:
  • Listing users with GET
  • Creating a new user with POST
• /api/users/:userId for the following:
  • Fetching a user with GET
  • Updating a user with PUT
  • Deleting a user with DELETE

The resulting user.routes.js code will look as follows (without the auth considerations that need to be added for protected routes).

mern-skeleton/server/routes/user.routes.js:

import express from 'express' ...