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Published inAug 2013
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Simon Holmes
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Simon Holmes started his journey as a web developer in the late 1990s. He built his first website for a project at university and soon saw what the industry had to offer when he promptly sold it! Following university, Simon worked his way through the ranks of design agency life, learning the skills of becoming a full-stack web developer. From server management and database design to building dynamic UIs from Photoshop files, it all fell under Simon's remit. Having witnessed first-hand the terrible JavaScript code so prevalent in the early 2000s, Simon is very much enjoying its resurgence as a powerful, structured language. Simon now works in SaaS, which is very heavy on the JavaScript.
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CRUD – create data


Now we're going to take what we've just learned, and use it to add the ability to create users in our application. If we look back to the routes we set up in app.js, we can see that we have two routes for creating a user, the form itself and the form action.

app.get('/user/new', user.create);     // Create new user form
app.post('/user/new', user.doCreate);  // Create new user action

Adding a new user form

To display the form in an HTML page, we need to do two things:

  • Create the Jade template

  • Link the template to the route

Adding the Jade template

By default Express will install with two Jade template files, layout.jade and index.jade. The layout template contains the HTML skeleton, including the DTD, <head>, and <body> tags. The index template extends the layout template inside the <body> tag.

For our MongoosePM application, we will keep this simple approach, and create a new extension template for each new page template we need. This is a great approach for...

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Published in: Aug 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782168195

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Simon Holmes started his journey as a web developer in the late 1990s. He built his first website for a project at university and soon saw what the industry had to offer when he promptly sold it! Following university, Simon worked his way through the ranks of design agency life, learning the skills of becoming a full-stack web developer. From server management and database design to building dynamic UIs from Photoshop files, it all fell under Simon's remit. Having witnessed first-hand the terrible JavaScript code so prevalent in the early 2000s, Simon is very much enjoying its resurgence as a powerful, structured language. Simon now works in SaaS, which is very heavy on the JavaScript.
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