So this class has been pretty darn good so far, so let me start with thanks. But in this lesson, I noticed something I found a little confusing. So many things by this point are named 'post' that it was a little unclear as to what was connected to what. It wasn't until I broke a few things on purpose until I understood the workings of the render method, which seems to be similar to Angular injection:

When we pass the parameter {post : post} like this

res.render('post', {post: post});

, it almost looks like post is something built into express as a native method. But if we change {post:post} to {anything:post}, we're changing the key that the values can be called by in our post.jade template, nothing more. So in the template, if we change

#{post.title}

to

#{anything.title}

and so on in the template, everything will still work. The Key in the key value pair that we pass to the render method is arbitrary, but the value must be our data set, in this case posts.json, which we've stored in the variable 'post'. See how that's a little confusing when we use the name 'post' for everything? (especially since post is also a REST term).

So the key/value pair we're passing to res.render() is an arbitrary Key name we can use to refer to the dataset we pass as its value. I hope that helps anybody who is experiencing the same questions as I. Happy coding!

Nicolas