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All right.

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So time for challenge 16. Make sure that you've watched a class lesson on Express routing parameters because

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this challenge is all about putting it into practice. To start off this challenge

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I want you to head over to your console and you're going to type the letters 'rs' while your nodemon

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server is running.

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What this does is that it will force nodemon to restart your server.

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And in terms of our website that means it will get rid of any previous blog post that we had because

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it will rerun this entire page and it will set our posts array back to empty.

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So the challenge is can you change the code inside Atom such that we head over to localhost:3000

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/posts/ anything you type in here, let's say testing right.?

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Then when I hit enter it should do nothing on our page but when you head over to our terminal it should

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print whatever it is that comes after

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/post/ right?

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So this last part, whatever it is I write in here, when I hit enter it should get logged in our console.

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And this requires you to apply what you learned in the last lesson about route parameters and using

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Express JS to achieve this.

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So pause the video and complete the challenge

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now. All right so there's only one hint for this challenge and that is remember that using Express if

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you have a read of the documentation, you can see that whatever parameter you have in here you can access

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it using request.params and then dot the name that you've put over here

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right? So whatever it is, it has to be spelt exactly the same. And hopefully this is enough of a hint for

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you to be able to reach the answer yourself.