Node.js 6.x Blueprints
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Creating the controllers folder

Instead of using the routes folder to create the route and functions of the comments file, we will use another format and create the controllers folder, where we can separate the route and the controller function, thus having a better modularization:

  1. Create a folder called controllers.
  2. Create a file called comments.js and add the following code:
          // get gravatar icon from email 
          var gravatar = require('gravatar'); 
          // get Comments model 
          var Comments = require('../models/comments'); 
           
          // List Comments 
          exports.list = function(req, res) { 
             // List all comments and sort by Date 
              Comments.find().sort('-created').populate('user',
                'local.email').exec(function(error, comments) { 
                  if (error) { 
                      return res.send(400, { 
                          message: error       
                      }); 
                  } 
                  // Render result 
                  res.render('comments', { 
                      title: 'Comments Page', 
                      comments: comments, 
                      gravatar: gravatar.url(comments.email,
                         {s: '80', r: 'x', d: 'retro'}, true) 
                  }); 
              }); 
          }; 
          // Create Comments 
          exports.create = function(req, res) { 
             // create a new instance of the Comments model with request body 
              var comments = new Comments(req.body); 
              // Set current user (id) 
              comments.user = req.user; 
              // save the data received 
              comments.save(function(error) { 
                  if (error) { 
                      return res.send(400, { 
                          message: error 
                      }); 
                  } 
                  // Redirect to comments 
                  res.redirect('/comments'); 
              }); 
          }; 
          // Comments authorization middleware 
          exports.hasAuthorization = function(req, res, next) { 
              if (req.isAuthenticated()) 
                  return next(); 
              res.redirect('/login'); 
          }; 
    
  3. Let's import the controllers on the app.js file; add the following lines after var users = require('./server/routes/users'):
          // Import comments controller
          var comments = require('./server/controllers/comments'); 
  4. Now add the comments route after app.use('/users', users):
          // Setup routes for comments 
          app.get('/comments', comments.hasAuthorization, comments.list); 
          app.post('/comments', comments.hasAuthorization, comments.create); 
    
  5. Create a file called comments.ejs at server/pages and add the following lines:
          <!DOCTYPE html> 
          <html> 
          <head> 
              <title><%= title %></title> 
              <% include ../partials/stylesheet %> 
          </head> 
          <body> 
            <% include ../partials/header %> 
            <div class="container"> 
              <div class="row"> 
                <div class="col-lg-6"> 
                  <h4 class="text-muted">Comments</h4> 
                </div> 
                <div class="col-lg-6"> 
                  <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary pull-right"
                   data-toggle="modal" data-target="#createPost">
                        Create Comment 
                    </button> 
                </div> 
                </div> 
                <!-- Modal --> 
                <div class="modal fade" id="createPost" tabindex="-1"
                 role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel"
                  aria-hidden="true"> 
                  <div class="modal-dialog" role="document"> 
                    <div class="modal-content"> 
                      <form action="/comments" method="post"> 
                        <div class="modal-header"> 
                          <button type="button" class="close" 
                           data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> 
                             <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span> 
                           </button> 
                           <h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">
                            Create Comment</h4> 
                        </div> 
     
                        <div class="modal-body"> 
                          <fieldset class="form-group"> 
                             <label  for="inputitle">Title</label> 
                             <input type="text" id="inputitle" name="title"
                               class="form-control" placeholder=
                                "Comment Title" required=""> 
                           </fieldset> 
                           <fieldset class="form-group"> 
                             <label  for="inputContent">Content</label> 
                             <textarea id="inputContent" name="content"
                              rows="8" cols="40" class="form-control"
                              placeholder="Comment Description" required="">
                             </textarea> 
                           </fieldset> 
     
                           </div> 
                            <div class="modal-footer"> 
                              <button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary"
                               data-dismiss="modal">Close</button> 
                              <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
                               Save changes</button> 
                            </div> 
                      </form> 
                    </div> 
                  </div> 
                </div> 
                  <hr> 
                <div class="lead"> 
                  <div class="list-group"> 
                    <% comments.forEach(function(comments){ %> 
                      <a href="#" class="list-group-item"> 
                        <img src="<%= gravatar %>" alt="" style="float: left;
                          margin-right: 10px"> 
                   <div class="comments"> 
                    <h4 class="list-group-item-heading">
                      <%= comments.title %></h4> 
                     <p class="list-group-item-text">
                       <%= comments.content %></p> 
                     <small class="text-muted">By: 
                        <%= comments.user.local.email %>
                     </small> 
                    </div> 
                    </a> 
     
                <% }); %> 
                </div> 
              </div> 
             </div> 
              <% include ../partials/footer %> 
              <% include ../partials/javascript %> 
          </body> 
          </html> 
    
  6. Note that we are using a simple Modal component from Twitter-bootstrap for the addition of comments, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Model for the create comments screen

  7. The last step is to create a model for the comments; let's create a file named comments.js at server/models/ and add the following code:
          // load the things we need 
          var mongoose = require('mongoose'); 
          var Schema = mongoose.Schema; 
     
          var commentSchema = mongoose.Schema({ 
              created: { 
                  type: Date, 
                  default: Date.now 
              }, 
              title: { 
                  type: String,       
                  default: '', 
                  trim: true, 
                  required: 'Title cannot be blank' 
              }, 
              content: { 
                  type: String, 
                  default: '', 
                  trim: true 
              }, 
              user: { 
                  type: Schema.ObjectId, 
                  ref: 'User' 
              } 
          }); 
     
          module.exports = mongoose.model('Comments', commentSchema);