This is the core node server that is installed by Gabba. It is built on top of Express and has a handful of conveniences built in as you will see below.
All routes are stored in app/routes. Any file placed in this directory fill automatically be loaded by the router.
Example: Create a file app/routes/user.js:
module.exports = function(router) {
router.get('/user/:id', 'user');
};
The example above will grab any GET requests to http://localhost:3000/user/juno and save "juno" as an "id" variable, and then load the "user" controller.
This Gabba router is merely an abstraction of the built in Express router. It should do the job for most cases, but should you have the need, you also have direct access to the express router. When the file is loaded, it is passed 2 properties, first is the router function you saw above, and the second is the app object.
For more advance routing options, check out the Express routing documentation. Note, the "req" and "res" mentioned in the express documentation will automatically be injected into your controller, so there's no need to
You saw how to load a controller above, now to use it. Inside your controller you will want to have something like this:
module.exports = function(client, app) {
let userID = client.get.params.id;
client.send.render('index', {
username: userID
});
};
Two parameters will be passed to the controller by the loader. The first "client" is an object that contains the request & response data: