Question

I would like to pass the JSON object along with the view when I show a model Object in Node/Express using Mongo.

Curren route (passing just the view):

app.get('/page/:customurl', function(req, res, next) {
  Page.findOne({ customurl: req.params.customurl.toLowerCase()}, function(error, page) {
    if (!page) return next(new NotFound('Document not found'));
    res.render('pages/page_show.ejs',
      { locals: {
          title: 'ClrTouch | ' + page.title,
          page:page,
      }
    });
  });
});

Can I add pagejson:page.toObject() to the locals and then put pagejson on my page somewhere? When I tried that it showed up as [object, Object] at the browser. Is there any easy way to pass the JSON to the view?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should look at JSON methods

In node repl:

> var document = {a: 'first property', b: 'second property'};
> JSON.stringify(document)
'{"a":"first property","b":"second property"}'
> 

If you need to respond to the route in different ways (ex. requested via ajax) you can either pass a new parameter to the url app.get('/page/:customurl.:format', ... or checking the request headers stored in req.headers

if ( req.headers["HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH"] === "XMLHttpRequest" ) {
  res.send(document);
} else {
  res.render(...);
}