Generate urls from mongo Obj.ID for all users in DB

Question

Task: Unique URL for each registered user.

Using: Mongoose, Express, Angular 4, Node.

Desired outcome: http://localhost:3000/user/207502j20nf23hf928n3f982

path: 'user/:id' Should represent Registered users profiles.

path: 'user/**' Should lead to 404.

Method provided by Moshe Karmel @ Answers.

Answer 1

Here's what you got to do.

1) Set up a route in express for user/:id 2) Check if you have a user that matches that is 3) If yes respond with the user, else respond 404

app.get('/user/:id', function(req, res){
    // query mongoose to get user by if
    User.find({ _id : req.params.id }, function(err, user){
        if(user){
            // we have a user with that id
            res.status(200).json(user);
        }else{
            res.status(404).json('not found');
        }
    });
});