7. POST endpoints

POST /api/snippets

Let's start with a simplified version of the POST /api/snippets route. First we add the POST route to api/snippets.js:

// ...

// POST /api/snippets
router.post("/", async (request, response) => {
  // TODO
});

// ...

To be able to insert a row into the snippets table, we need to have data in the users table. Create a user and note what the user ID is.

The POST request we want to make will look something like this:

POST /api/snippets
{
    "title": "Snippet title",
    "contents": "#hello",
    "is_private": false
}

Exercise: Implement the POST endpoint

When we now make a request like:

POST /api/snippets
{
    "title": "Snippet title",
    "contents": "#hello",
    "is_private": false
}

you should insert a new row into the snippets table with the data from the request body.

When creating a snippet we also need to specify a user_id. For now, you can just pass in the user_id in the request body (alongside the other snippet data).