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In this video we'll handle the user route on our site.
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First of, let's create a function called
userRoute.
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So the user would be slash and then the
username.
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So we want to remove the first slash and
that would be our username.
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So we can do var username is equal
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to the request.url, and
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we can replace
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slash with the empty string.
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So if the username
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length is greater than 0, so technically
you could
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replace slash with just empty string on
that route and
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it would just be the empty string.
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So if I went to home, it would match.
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The username would be the empty string.
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So we need to make sure that the username
actually exists i.e.,
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is longer than 0, and then we can do
something with that username.
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So let's just look at the code here, we
can do the same as this.
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But instead of search, we can just put in
the username so, username.
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So we'll see the Header, we'll see the
username and we'll see the Footer.
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And we'll worry about getting the actual
data a little bit later on.
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But before this gets out-of-hand, we've
got two routing
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functions in our app JS file, and it could
get a little bit messy.
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So what we should do is compartmentalize
our code, and
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we should create a router JS file which
holds all the routes for our app.
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So let's do New File and we'll call it
router.js.
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And let's just cut these two handlers out
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of our app.js and paste them in here.
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And let's just get rid of these numbers
now cuz they don't really make any sense
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in the context of the app being split up
into separate files now.
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So, we create the web server.
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And we can require
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the router.js file and
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let's do that,
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var router is equal to
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require router.js.
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And we need to export the routes in our
router.js file.
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So, at the bottom here,
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we can do module.exports_home
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is equal to homeRoute and
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we can do module.exports_user is equal to
userRoute.
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But you know what, the route at the end of
the function name is kind of redundant.
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So let's just get rid of that, and get rid
of that,
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get rid of that there, and get rid of that
there.
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So now in our app.js, we're requiring the
router and
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that means we can access those methods on
the router.
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So we can do router.home and
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router.user.
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So, if we ever need to create new routes
we can just go in the router file,
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export them and then just include them
here like this.
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So, let's try this out in our browser.
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Oh, there's an error.
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Can't find the file router.js.
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Oh, because I didn't do the path to the
router.js file.
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So, that's why.
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And that should fix it, cool.
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So, the home route is working still, so
there's Header, Search, and Footer.
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And then let's do chalkers now.
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And it shows Header, Chalkers, and Footer.
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So, let's try a different username.
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joykestan2, and
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even we can do chalkers123.
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And it still works because we're not going
out on the internet and
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we're not going to the Treehouse API and
pulling information from it so
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it's not erroring at the moment, cool.
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