[MEAN Stack] First API -- 7. Using Route Files to Structure Server Side API

Currently, the server.js is going way too long. In the real world application, it is likely that we are going to deal with more routers, whichi means it growing even longer.

A single file which has too many lines of code whcih means code small.

 

We are going to extract routes to modules.

firstMean/routes/people.js:

/**
 * Created by Answer1215 on 1/2/2015.
 */
var express = require('express');
var people = require('../controller/people');

//return router instance which can be mounted as a middleware
var router = express.Router();

router.route('/')
    .get(people.getAll);
router.route('/:id')
    .get(people.get);

//exports the router as a Node module
module.exports = router;

 

Server.js:

'use strict';

var express = require('express');
var cors = require("cors");
var app = express();
app.use(cors());

var people = require('./routes/people');
//use router as a middleware
app.use('/people', people);

app.listen(3000);