Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

Creating the REST controller

Let's start by creating a new file in the src/routes folder named admin-api.js. Then, write the following code:

const express = require('express')const api = express.Router()api  .route('/admin/match/:id?')  .post((req, res, next) => {          // logic to create Match       })   .put((req, res, next) => {     

     // logic to update Scores       })module.exports = api

You are very familiar with this code structure. First, we import the modules required to define our REST controller. Secondly, we create a /admin/match/:id? route and define the POST method to create a new match and another PUT method to update the scores.

Pay attention to the route definition; we are declaring an optional path variable called :id. To make a path optional, ...