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Are you ready for challenge 11?

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Now in this challenge I want you to put this newly created post object inside a global variable called

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posts, with an 's' at the end.

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We're going to have an array that is going to store all of these new posts but it's going to be a global

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variable.

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You need to create a new empty array that is a global variable and then you're going to add this new

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post object to that new array.

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And finally at the end of this route you're going to redirect to the root route. And inside the

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root route we're going to log all of the posts inside the post array that you created.

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Once you've completed this, what should happen is I should be able to put in a post hit publish

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and then let's go back to compose again and let's put in another post and hit publish.

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And firstly you notice that we get directed to the root route or the home page

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once we've finished composing the post. And then if you take a look inside our terminal you can see that

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my entire array is being logged

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and the first time it only contained a single object, the 'Day 1 post, and the second time this array

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contained two Javascript objects both of my posts, 'Day 1' and 'Day 2'.

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This is the end goal of this challenge and it's time to pause the video and tackle this challenge.

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All right so here's my first hint.

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What we want to do is to be able to save this post object into an array which we can then log inside this home

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route.

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Now in order to do that we need a global variable.

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Remember that global variables have to be declared outside of all of the other functions in the page.

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So that means you probably have to do it somewhere up here

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outside of all of the other functions and routes.

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All right so here's hint number 2. In order to create an empty array

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you will need to write something like this.

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Let's say that we were creating a global var variable and we call it posts and then we would create an

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empty array and assign it to this variable by saying =

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[ ] ; and this would be an empty array that has nothing inside until we add something

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to it.

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All right so now this is my final hint and that is in order to move from the app.post to the apt.get

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we're going to need to use something called res.redirect. And this is a method that allows you

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to redirect to another route,

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so essentially make a get request on any of the other routes. And if you wanted to redirect and inside

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the parentheses you would put the route that you want to redirect to.

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Those are all of my hints and see if now you can complete this challenge successfully.