added utils folder, auto prepend api to all routes, fleshing out db and controller

Author: coreyc

app.js

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
 
 app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('App is working'))
 
-app.use(routes)
+app.use('/api', routes)
 
 app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!'))
 
 module.exports = {
   app
-}
+}

controllers/blog-post.controller.js

@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
 const { blogService } = require('../services')
 
-// const { requireAuthentication } = auth
 const { createBlogpost } = blogService
 
-// in route, split off the req, or just pass req, res in here?
-function postBlogpost(user, content) {
-  // requireAuthentication(user)
-  return createBlogpost(user, content)
+/*
+ * call other services, or service functions here if you need to
+*/
+const postBlogpost = async (req, res, next) => {
+  const {user, content} = req.body
+  try {
+    await createBlogpost(user, content)
+    res.sendStatus(201)
+    next()
+  } catch(e) {
+    console.log(e.message)
+    res.send(500) && next(error)
+  }
 }
 
 module.exports = {

db/blog-post.db.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+const blogpostDb = (user, content) => {
+  /*
+   * put code to call database here
+   * this can be either an ORM model or code to call the database through a driver or querybuilder
+   * i.e.-
+    INSERT INTO blogposts (user_name, blogpost_body)
+    VALUES (user, content);
+  */
+  return 1 //just a dummy return as we aren't calling db right now
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  blogpostDb
+}

db/index.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const blogpostDb = require('./blog-post.db')
+const { blogpostDb } = require('./blog-post.db')
 
 module.exports = {
   blogpostDb

services/blog-post.service.js

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 const { blogpostDb } = require('../db')
 
+/*
+  * if you need to make calls to additional tables, data stores (Redis, for example), 
+  * or call another endpoint as part of creating the blogpost, add them to this service
+*/
 const createBlogpost = async (user, content) => {
-  const post = new Post()
-  post.user = user
-  post.content = content
-
   try {
-    await post.validate()
-    return post.save()
-  } catch (e) {
+    return await blogpostDb(user, content)
+  } catch(e) {
     throw new Error(e.message)
   }
 }

utils/index.js

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// utility functions common to the project go here