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All right.
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So here's the answer to the challenge.
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Now if you had any trouble trying to figure out how to create an object in Javascript then you would've
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come across the syntax for an object that looks something like this.
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So you would start with the keyword var to show that you're creating a new variable, then you would give
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that variable a name whatever it is that you wish,
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then you have an equal sign and you open a set of curly braces.
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Now inside the curly braces you have your key value pairs and you can have as many pairs as you wish
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and you can even nest key value pairs as the value for a particular key.
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So in this case the key and values that are in red is actually bunched together as a value for the second
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key.
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So with this refresher on Javascript objects in mind let's head over to our app.js and let's delete
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this console that log. And instead of console logging our post body and post title we're going to store
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it inside a object.
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Let's use the same syntax as we saw previously in the slides.
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So that's create a var and we'll call it a post and we're going to use the equal sign and then we to open
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up a set of curly braces.
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And this is the start of any Javascript object. Inside the curly braces
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I'm going to put in my key value pairs.
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So the two keys that I want are the title and the content.
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Now all I have to do is just to add the values of each of those keys. So we know that the content is
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basically this
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right?
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It's request.
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body.postBody.
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And- So the title is structured very similarly request.body.postTitle and then we have a comma
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separating our key value pairs and we complete object by closing it off with a semicolon.
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So now we can delete our console.log and we now have our brand new object that's called post that contains
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two key value pairs separated by a comma,
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one is going to be the title and one is going to be the content. And these values are passed over
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when that post route is triggered.
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Now the final thing to consider is that we mentioned previously that you should try to avoid using vars
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if at all possible.
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And the best type of programming practice is to start with the most restrictive type of variable which
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is a const.
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And as you remember consts cannot be changed after they've been created. And we're not planning on
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changing it inside here after it's been declared. We're only interested in storing it and then we'll
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use it inside one of our pages.
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So a const is probably the best keyword to put over here. Now if you use the var or if you use the let,
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that's completely fine. But just take a refresher of what we talked about in the scope lesson and
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when we mentioned these three types of variables.
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So now we're ready to move on to the next challenge.