I'm unclear why posts[title] works since the posts.json is an object of objects, not an array of objects. posts.title?

Hi Johnny,

Bracket notations is not only for arrays. You can access objects with dot notation as well as with bracket notation. In many cases there are interchangeable - here is some sort of comparison of pros and cons: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4968406/javascript-property-access-dot-notation-vs-brackets

But in that case here I guess it's other thing. The bracket notation allows you to access properties by name stored in value. For example:

var obj = { "foo" : "bar"};

var lookingFor = "foo";

var contents = obj[lookingFor];

console.log(contents);
// outputs "bar"

The output will be "bar" - a property of foo. You couldn't do that with dot notation since obj.lookingFor would look for a key named lookingFor and obj[lookingFor] is, well, looking for a property of a key which name we store in a variable.

UPDATE: So to make it more this case specific. Since entires in post.json in this example have for a key full title text he takes the input from URL (for example Crossfit is Cool), assigns it to variable and then selects an object by that key.

var title = req.params.title // for example it equals "Crossfit is Cool"
var post = posts[title] // post now has properties of a key Crossfit is Cool that is title and description of it

Hope that helps ;)