Lesson: Controllers

Lesson overview

Cover controllers part of MVC architecture in Express land

Lesson outline

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• Cover definition of controllers
• Cover different response methods
• How to handle exceptions
• Deep dive into middlewares and its use cases like validation, authentication (actual implementation in later lessons)
• What is next in a controller
• Relevant code examples and discuss file structure

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• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
• Lesson follows our Layout Style Guide.

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