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Challenges: Redirects

2:37 with Andrew Chalkley and Joel Kraft

Put some of what you've learned about redirects to practice.

Steps to implement the feature in this challenge

  • Add a form with a goodbye button to the welcome page.
  • Create a new route called goodbye for the form to post to
  • Clear the cookie in the new route
  • Redirect the user to the hello form

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    Because we want this behavior to happen when we visit the index route. 0:00
    The route handler that handles the root route, is where we need to add the logic. 0:03
    Here in the app.js in the index route, 0:12
    I made an if statement checking the value of name. 0:15
    If it exists, we want to render the index template, 0:20
    otherwise redirect to the hello route. 0:25
    Now I want to present you with another challenge, 0:28

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