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JavaScript Express Basics Using Templates with Express Using Logic in Pug

Kevin Ohlsson
Kevin Ohlsson
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Posted by Kevin Ohlsson
Kevin Ohlsson
4,559 Points

Why are colors array created in app.js?

Hello

Is this best practise?

Shouldnt the color array be created in some other file to keep the document organized?

1 Answer

Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,052 Points
Kevin Gates
Kevin Gates
15,052 Points

Just showing that they could be generated from someplace else, then exported to the template file to be dynamically added.

In theory you could compartmentalize a lot of the code, but the goal was to explain how data / variables move.