Node.js By Example

Storing the tagged users and displaying them in the user's feed

Along with the text and files, we now send a list of user IDs—users that should be tagged in the post. As mentioned before, they come to the server in the form of a string. We need to use JSON.parse to convert them into a regular array. The following lines are part of the backend/api/content.js module:

var form = new formidable.IncomingForm();
form.multiples = true;
form.parse(req, function(err, formData, files) {
  var data = {
    text: formData.text
  };
  if(formData.pageId) {
    data.pageId = formData.pageId;
  }
  if(formData.eventDate) {
    data.eventDate = formData.eventDate;
  }
  if(formData.taggedFriends) {
    data.taggedFriends = JSON.parse(formData.taggedFriends);
  }
  ...

The content.js module is the ...