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JavaScript Build a Simple Dynamic Site with Node.js Handling Routes in Node.js Populating User Information

Posted by mattcleary2
mattcleary2
19,953 Points

So when does the program connect to Treehouse in order to get the profile information?

Hey guys,

I'm a little confused. Where in the program do we actually connect to Treehouse in order to get the profile stats?

Thankyou

3 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

It should be specified in profile.js which is responsible for fetching and populating the profile info.

Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,288 Points
Jesus Mendoza
Jesus Mendoza
23,288 Points

When you run your program with node server.js the program keeps running in the background waiting for an event to happen, when it gets a request to '/:username' (which is supposed to happen when you click the search button or enter the username manually to the url) then it connects to Treehouse and gets the data corresponding to that user

mattcleary2
mattcleary2
19,953 Points

Thanks for responding so quickly. What I mean though, is how does it know to connect to TREEHOUSE itself? Where did we specify to go to it?

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points
Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points

DNS, Google that. Maybe. Or protocols. Or just programmatically made so when you type so Etching in the URL it will show info, these links are nice, but yiu need to programme for them yo be nice, since that's not default.

Pedro Esteves
Pedro Esteves
13,125 Points
Pedro Esteves
Pedro Esteves
13,125 Points

When you fill out the search form, you're doing a post request with that username.

On the router.js, on the home function, we first handle the GET request (when you enter the webpage), but then we handle the POST request - that's when you insert the username in the search form - it redirects you to the user function that handles the URL with the username, fetches the information of that username from treehouse (var studentProfile = new Profile(username);) and then we writes the response.