Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

Retrieving all contacts

The index route will retrieve all of the contacts from the database and send them back to the client in a JSON object. We can use the mongoose .find() method to retrieve all of the entries of a model from the database.

Insert the following code into the ContactController.js file:

// ./controllers/ContactController.jsconst Contact = require('../models/Contact');module.exports = {  async index(ctx) {    const contacts = await Contact.find();    ctx.body = {      status: 'success',      data: contacts    };  }};

Next, we head over to the ./middleware/router.js file, in order to add the corresponding route, as follows:

// ./middleware/router.js// ...const contactController = require('../controllers/ContactController');router .get('/', async ...