Can a port both render page and return data in Express

Question

Can a port both render page and return data in Express

Says we have a personal blog page, once the user visit '/home', the server returns all the blog posts he has written, meanwhile I also want to get data from the server so I can handle the data with template in front-end. In Express, is there any way to perform action like this:

app.get('/home', function () {
  Post
    .getAll()
    .then(function (posts) {
      res.send(posts)
    })

  res.render('home')
})

The reason I want to do this is to minimal ports and also gathering them up by functionalities, or have I define data-ports for each one?

Thanks 4 help

node.js
express
backend

Answer 1

No, you can't do that. Separate your data and template providing logic like this sample:

app.get('/home', function () {
  res.render('home');
});

app.get('/api/posts', function () {
  Post
    .getAll()
    .then(function (posts) {
      res.send(posts);
    });
});