refactor: refactor the controllers a bit to make them more consistent

controllers/errorController.js

@@ -27,10 +27,14 @@ const sendErrorResponse = (err, req, res, devMode = false) => {
   // 2. FOR WEBPAGES
   else
     res.status(err.statusCode).render('error', {
-      title: 'Error',
+      data: {
-      statusCode: err.statusCode,
+        statusCode: err.statusCode,
-      message: err.message,
+        message: err.message,
-      ...(devMode && { stack: err.stack }),
+        ...(devMode && { stack: err.stack }),
+      },
+      meta: {
+        title: 'Error',
+      },
     });
 };
 

controllers/viewController.js

@@ -11,10 +11,19 @@ import { nonSlugRoutes } from '../utils/constants.js';
 //                     EXPORTS
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 export const about = (req, res, next) => {
-  res.render('about', { title: 'About' });
+  res.render('about', {
+    meta: {
+      title: 'About',
+    },
+  });
 };
+
 export const privacy = (req, res, next) => {
-  res.render('privacy', { title: 'Privacy' });
+  res.render('privacy', {
+    meta: {
+      title: 'Privacy',
+    },
+  });
 };
 
 export const answers = catchAsyncErrors(async (req, res, next) => {
@@ -23,23 +32,37 @@ export const answers = catchAsyncErrors(async (req, res, next) => {
   if (nonSlugRoutes.includes(slug)) return next();
 
   const answersData = await getAnswers(slug);
+  const title = answersData.question.text.spans.map(span => span.text).join('');
 
   res.status(200).render('answers', {
-    title: answersData.question.text.spans.map(span => span.text).join(''),
     data: answersData,
+    meta: {
+      title,
+    },
   });
 });
 
 export const topic = catchAsyncErrors(async (req, res, next) => {
   const topicData = await getTopic(req.params.slug);
 
-  res.status(200).render('topic', { title: topicData.name, data: topicData });
+  res.status(200).render('topic', {
+    data: topicData,
+    meta: {
+      title: topicData.name,
+    },
+  });
 });
 
 export const unimplemented = (req, res, next) => {
+  const message =
+    "This route isn't yet implemented. Check back sometime later!";
   res.status(501).render('error', {
-    title: 'Not yet implemented',
+    data: {
-    statusCode: 501,
+      statusCode: 501,
-    message: "This route isn't yet implemented. Check back sometime later!",
+      message,
+    },
+    meta: {
+      title: 'Not yet implemented',
+    },
   });
 };

views/pug/_header.pug

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-header.header(class=`${title === 'About' ? 'header__about': ''}`)
+header.header(class=`${meta.title === 'About' ? 'header__about': ''}`)
   .header__bar 
     a.header__link.header__logo(href='/') Quetre
 

views/pug/base.pug

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ html(lang='en')
     meta(http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible', content='IE=edge')
     meta(name='viewport', content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0')
     //- appending title to name in case it exists, else showing name as the title of the page
-    title= title ? `${title} | Quetre`: 'Quetre'
+    - const pageTitle = meta.title ? `${meta.title} | Quetre`: 'Quetre'
+    title= pageTitle
     meta(name="description", content="A libre front-end for Quora. See any answer without being tracked, without being required to log in, and without being bombarded by pesky ads.")
     //- preloading css and fonts for performance gains
     link(rel='preload', href='/fonts/WorkSans.woff2', as='font', type='font/woff2', crossorigin)

views/pug/error.pug

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ extends base
 
 block content 
   main#main.main.error
-    p.error__code= statusCode
+    p.error__code= data.statusCode
-    p.error__message= message
+    p.error__message= data.message
 
     //- will only apply in dev mode
-    if stack 
+    if data.stack
       .error__stack-box: pre.error__stack
-        code.error__text= stack
+        code.error__text= data.stack
 
     p.error__return Go back to the 
       a.error__link(href="/") Home Page