pizza-perfect's Introduction

Routing pizzas

This journey have a few chapters. Check back regularly for updates.

It starts with creating routes,
Next you will add data to you routes.
Create a Pizza cart
After that you will add multi user support,
after that you will store orders in a database,
then you will add pizza delivery support

While doing this let's reflect on:

What is a route in ExpressJS?
What is a GET route?
What is a POST route?
What is req and res in the route handlers?

Creating routes

Using the Handlebars Templates in the views folder create these routes:

Route name	Description
`/pizzas`	a get route to show a list of pizzas
`/pizza/add`	a get route that contains a form - that posts to `/pizza/add/`
`/pizza/add/`	a post route for now let is redirect to the `/pizzas` get route.
`/pizza/edit/:pizza_id`	a get route for editing pizzas - for now display the `id` passed into the route in the template. Post to `/pizzas/edit`.
`/pizza/edit`	a post route for updating a pizza - for now display the `id` passed into the route in the template. Redirect to `/pizzas` for now.

When you are done your page should flow from the /pizzas route to the pizza add and edit screens. No data should be captured yet.

Use res.render to should templates and res.redirect to move to the next route. Note that you can't redirect to a post route.

Adding data to the routes

Use the PizzaService Factory Function skeleton to add data to the routes. Store pizzas on a JavaScript list []

A pizza object looks like this:

{
	id : 17,
	size : 'small',
	name : 'Chicken & Cheese',
	description : 'Our fresh new Chicken and Cheese pizza with tasty free range chicken the latest cheese flavours from the ...'
}