JavaScript by Example

The routes file

In the starter files, I have included a routes.js file in the src/routes.js path. This file contains all the routes we are going to use on our blog in the form of JSON objects:

const routes = {  home: '/home',  authors: '/authors',  author: '/author/:authorname',  newPost: '/new-post',  post: '/post/:id',};export default routes;

See the home page of the completed blog app. The URL will be pointing to the '/home' route. Likewise, each page has its respective route. However, some routes have dynamic values. For example, if you click Read More in a blog post, it will take you to the page with the URL:

http://localhost:3000/post/487929f5-47bc-47af-864a-f570d2523f3e

Here, the third part of the URL is the post's ID. To represent such ...