spogburn/middleware_exercise

#Middleware Exercises

Write your own middleware function with app.use - to console log the request url path for every route.
Write your own middleware that restricts access to /users so that when you attempt to access that route (you can use the link in /home), you get sent back to the home page ('/home') instead of viewing the users page. - look up how to use res.redirect(); -- How could you achieve a similar goal without redirecting?
Write your own middleware ERROR function using app.use to display an error message when it gets used through next()

Check out the /err/:msg route for an easy way to test this function. Reference the docs: http://expressjs.com/en/guide/using-middleware.html

npm install --save morgan

var logger = require('morgan');
app.use(logger('dev'));

Observe the output of morgan as well as your own req.url console log middleware, they do similar things don't they?

Challenge: Instead of using morgan's pretty output, expand on your own logging middleware to mimic morgan.

Write a simple form in the home.ejs file which lets the user submit their mailing info (name, address, city, state, zip) - this form should use the method 'POST' (not GET) to /info
Write a route in youre index.js file using app.post(...) for /info.
Make use of the body-parser middleware which was discussed earlier in the lesson to access the variables that get sent from your form to your new post route at /info
In your terminal:

  createdb middleware
  psql middleware -f ./data/build.sql

Now that you have access to your form's data through body-parser, and you have a database with a table (use psql, \c middleware, then \dt -- to make sure the SQL file ran properly). You should be able to use the user submitted info, and insert it into your database.
Implement your error handler middleware in your SQL calls when checking if there was an error.
STRETCH: Write a GET request for /info that returns all the rows in the users table, then use this information to render a new template or partial (your choice) with a nicely formatted table containing a row for each user.

spogburn / middleware_exercise