Lesson: Forms and Data Handling

Lesson overview

Strategy on using forms for create/update and data sanitisation and validation

Lesson outline

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• Discuss forms and how to handle create and update entity forms in Express
• How to deal with error messages
• Discuss data sanitisation & validation via Express validator
• Code examples for above

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Express_Nodejs/forms is a good guide for this lesson

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• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
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