ExpressJs exercise

This exercise is about express JS which is a web application framwork for node.js.

Project setup [already done for this template]

Creating package.json

• npm init -y This creates a basic package.json containing the dependencies and devDependencies.

Installing express js

• npm install express --save

Template structure

• View: home.pug in the views folder which appear at root url localhost:3000/
• Controller: server.js has functions to get the requested data, create an HTML page displaying the data, and return it to the user to view in the browse
• movies.csv: a csv file that contain the following movie details: Film, Genre, Lead Studio, Audience score, Profitability, Rotten Tomatoes, Worldwide Gross, Year

Installation

• Clone this repo
• npm i

Live reload

Nodemon has been used to detect changes in files and restart the application automatically without having to restart the server again.

Start server

• npm run devStart
• rs : to restart server

Load the application

Load http://localhost:3000/ to see the output

Future work instructions

• Display content of movies.csv into a table on home.pug.
• Use a library like bootstrap to style the table.
• The table should include pagination and display only 25 records per page.
• Moving to the next page should fetch the next 25 records from the file. So a request should fetch a maximum 25 records.
• Moving to the previous page should not make another request from the server instead get the record from the local browser storage.
• Modify/Update a line in the table should send a request to the server to update the line. You may either update the original csv file or write a new file with the updated line.