weekly updates: learning JS on the backend[2/24/2022]

Will never underestimate “a quick and simple” code-along as it is always informative. Updating y’all my process with this blog markdown using Express.js, Node.js, and MongoDB by Web Dev Simplified. I am stuck on when setting up the articles’ route with the issues of not being able to grab the generic string of article id after creating a new article. There is a long loading process after submitting a new article. I am being taken from articles/new to articles with the content of title, description, and markdown still intact on the form of article, is where I am at by the30 min-ish mark into the hour-ish tutorial.

Queue the effective and fierce Googling on express and body-parser with my data request being sent somewhere on this middleware. I am going through my directory files until I am back on server.js to make sure I have the details down.

const express = require('express')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const mongoose = require('mongoose')
const articleRouter = require('./routes/articles')
const app = express()
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/blog',
{ useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true })
app.set('view engine', 'ejs')
//view engine convert ejs code to html
//ejs -here we will be writing all our views using ejs
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }))
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
// res.send('Helloo World, from server.js')
//try this one where we are rendering to the view files index.ejs w/ the render() method
//render will pass it to the path we want from the diretory
//index route/main route
const articles = [{
title: 'Test Article',
createdAt: new Date(),
description: 'Test description'
},
{
title: 'Test Article 2',
createdAt: new Date(),
description: 'Test description 2'
}]
//    ^ set it to an array w/ one object inside ^
res.render('articles/index', {articles: articles})
//hooks up the view
//passing articles to the view articles.js ^^
})
app.use('/articles', articleRouter)
app.listen(5000)

Of course, I will paste the error below.

Curious about the reasons behind the unhandledPromiseRejectionWarning… being deprecated at the end.

Thank you for tuning into my weekly code-along updates. Happy coding.

Resources
• Web Dev Simplified. “How To Build A Markdown Blog Using Node.js, Express, And MongoDB.” Youtube.com
• Web Dev Simplified. “JavaScript Async Await.” Youtube.com
• Web Dev Simplified. “JavaScript Promises in 10 Minutes.” Youtube.com