Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS - Second Edition

Receiving data – POST and PUT requests

When we want to allow those using our API to insert or update data, we need to accept a request from a different HTTP verb. When inserting new data, the POST verb is the preferred method to accept data and know it's for an insert. Let's take a look at code that accepts a POST request and data along with the request, inserts a record into our collection, and returns the updated JSON.

Insert the following block of code after the route you added previously for GET:

router.post('/', function(req, res) { // insert the new item into the collection (validate first) if(req.body.Id && req.body.Title && req.body.Director && req.body.Year && req.body.Rating) { json.push(req.body); res.json(json); } else { res.json(500, ...