Thank you. I was hoping there would be another way to deal with this - there's going to be so much processing/logic that I need to put in this else... because for e.g. Some events are featured events so they belong in appropriate parts/sections of the home page while others get smaller real estate on the home page and so on.
Thanks, JP On Friday, March 8, 2013 3:26:10 AM UTC-5, ryandesign wrote: > > > On Mar 7, 2013, at 21:07, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > So, here's my main home page (/) route - in the router.js file: > > > > app.get('/', function(req,res){ > > // check if the user's credentials are saved in a cookie // > > if (req.cookies.user == undefined || req.cookies.pass == > undefined){ > > res.render('index'); > > } > > else { > > res.render('index', {username: req.cookies.user}); > > } > > }); > > > > However, how do I dynamically render data on the home/main/index page > such as different list of events. > > > One way I am thinking I can do this is implement some logic in the > app.get route before I render index like so: > > app.get('/', function(req,res){ > > // check if the user's credentials are saved in a cookie // > > if (req.cookies.user == undefined || req.cookies.pass == > undefined){ > > eventArray = getAllEvents(list, fn); > > ....callback logic... > > if (!events){ > > res.render('index'); > > } > > else { > > res.render('index', {event 1 data, event 2 data, event > 3 data...}); > > } > > } > > else { > > res.render('index', {username: req.cookies.user}); > > } > > }); > > But this looks like a bad way to code this - no? > > That seems like a reasonable solution. What do you think it's a bad way to > code? > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
