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Amy Greene
6,478 PointsHow is the API already mounted to questions
When we are creating the post for creating answers we use the following code:
//POST /questions/:id/answers //route for creating answers router.post("/:id/answers", function(req, res){
res.json({ response: "you sent me a post request", body: req.body
}); });
I understand that we have already mounted to questions but I don't understand how.
Should we not have to do: router.post("questions/:id/answers", function(req, res){
1 Answer
Alex Labins
20,825 PointsIn app.js there is the following app.use() statement:
app.use("/questions", routes);
This tells Express to send all requests that begin with /questions to the routes.js file (routes is a variable that loaded the routes.js file at the top of the app.js file).
From there, all further routing will be relative to the /questions route.