console.log a GET request with Node.js

Question

console.log a GET request with Node.js

I'm using the Express framework for my node application. I'm quite new to it so I thought I'd create a defacto "To-Do" application to learn about it. What I'm trying to do it log a request made for debugging purposes. So when I go to:

app.get('/todos/:id', function (req, res) {
    var result = db.load(req.params.id);
    result ? res.send(result) : res.send(404);
});

I want to a) see what result equals and b) log what happens in my db.load method:

exports.load = function (id) {
    todos.findOne({ id: id }, function (err, todo) {
        if (!err) {
            return todo;
        }
    });
}

I'm using the mongolian library to access my MongoDB data. I've followed an example by Steve Sanderson: https://github.com/SteveSanderson/nodejs-webmatrix-video-tutorials

node.js
express

Answer 1

app.get('/todos/:id', function (req, res) {
    db.load(req.params.id, function(err, result) {
        // also handle err
        result ? res.send(result) : res.send(404);
    });
});


exports.load = function (id, callback) {
    todos.findOne({ id: id }, callback);
}