A Nodal Example Controller for a Blog Post

nodal_blog_post_controller.js

module.exports = (() => {

  'use strict';

  const Nodal = require('nodal');
  const BlogPost = Nodal.require('app/models/blog_post.js');

  class BlogPostsController extends Nodal.Controller {
  
    index() {
    
      BlogPost.query()
        .join('user') // Eager load joined tables
        .join('comments')
        .orderBy('created_at DESC')
        .limit(10)
        .end((err, blogPosts) => {
        
          this.respond(err || blogPosts);
        
        });
    
    }
    
    show() {
      
      BlogPost.find(this.params.route.id, (err, blogPost) => {
        
        if (err) {
          return this.respond(err);
        }
        
        // Lazy load joined tables
        blogPost.include((err, user, comments) => {
          
          this.respond(err || blogPost);
          
        });
        
      }
      
    }
    
    create() {
    
      BlogPost.create(this.params.body, (err, blogPost) => {
        
        this.respond(err || blogPost);
        
      });
    
    }
  
  }

})();