My apologies if this has been asked before but I can't seem to find anything on it. I am currently trying to run a GET operation but my code doesn't seem to work. I already have the simple set up done but when I click the button I created to request the data from a simple .JSON file I made I keep getting "0 documents retrieved". Could anyone assist with this? here is my code.
Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you.
Handlebars -
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Get Request</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>GET Request</h2S>
<div class="results">
{{#each data}}
<p> {{first_name}} {{last_name}} </p>
{{/each}}
</div>
</body>
</html>
HTML -
<h2>GET Request</h2>
<p>
<a href="/api/user"
data-selector="results">Load user data</a>
<form action="/api/user" method="GET"></form>
</p>
<div class="results"></div>
JavaScript -
const express = require("express")
const app = express();
const mongo = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
const assert = require('assert');
const url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/test';
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var exphbs = require('express-handlebars');
app.set('view engine', 'handlebars');
app.engine('handlebars', exphbs());
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
app.get('/api/user', function(req, res) {
mongo.connect(url,{ useUnifiedTopology: true }, function(err, database) {
const db = database.db('test');
db.collection('users').find()
.toArray(function(err, result) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
console.log(result.length + ' documents retrieved.');
res.render('user', { data:result, layout:false})
database.close();
});
});
});
app.get('*', function (request, response) {
response.sendFile('./public/hello.html',{root: __dirname});
});
const port = 8900;
app.listen(port);
console.log(`Listening to server: http:
JSON -
{
"id": 1,
"name": {
"first_name": "Robert",
"last_name": "Swanson"
},
"title": "Some Dude"
}
What I have tried:
So far I have tried a couple different things such as changing the names in the array and messing around with the expression names in the handlebars file but since VSC isn't throwing any errors I don't really know exactly where to start.
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