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Posted by Gary Jennings
Gary Jennings
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Express Route File - Probably writing too much code

I just finished the Express course, loved it. So I decided to make my own blog with Express. What I find is that I am writing a lot of code in my route file. I am defining variables from my JSON file, writing functions to work with the JSON data. As a result, I have a lot of code in my route file before I even get to my routes.

I also found I was doing the same thing when I was using the PHP Slim framework. I dont really have a handle on MVC, but I am guessing the code that is preparing the database data to be passed into a view should be going in either a controller or a modal?