I am implementing a restful api to do stuff just with a local file: data.js: For example here´s how I do a Post request to create another post: Or here´s how I delete a post (i actually add it the id property in order to do this, although minutes later i found out it wasn´t neccesary, but because of it

Can i do a callback (or something similar) after a filter function?

I am implementing a restful api to do stuff just with a local file:

data.js:

let store = {
  posts: [
    {
      id: 1,
      name: 'Top 10 ES6 Features every Web Developer must know',
      url: 'https://webapplog.com/es6',
      text: "This essay will give you a quick introduction to ES6. If you don’t know what is ES6, it’s a new JavaScript implementation.",
      comments: [
        { text: 'Cruel…..var { house, mouse} = No type optimization at all' },
        { text: 'I think you’re undervaluing the benefit of ‘let’ and ‘const’.' },
        { text: '(p1,p2)=>{ … } ,i understand this ,thank you !' }
      ]
    },
    {
      id: 2,
      name: 'anotherPost',
      url: 'https://webapplog.com/es6',
      text: "This essay will give you a quick introduction to ES6. If you don’t know what is ES6, it’s a new JavaScript implementation.",
      comments: [
        { text: 'Cruel…..var { house, mouse} = No type optimization at all' },
        { text: 'I think you’re undervaluing the benefit of ‘let’ and ‘const’.' },
        { text: '(p1,p2)=>{ … } ,i understand this ,thank you !' }
      ]
    }

  ]
}
module.exports = store;

For example here´s how I do a Post request to create another post:

router.post('/', (req, res) => {
        data.posts.push({
            id: req.body.id,
            name: req.body.name,
            url: req.body.url,
            text: req.body.text,
            comments: [
                req.body.comments
            ]
          })
        res.send(data.posts)
    })

Or here´s how I delete a post (i actually add it the id property in order to do this, although minutes later i found out it wasn´t neccesary, but because of it it wasn´t the reason it came up the creation of this question)

router.delete('/:postId', (req, res) => {
        const post_id = req.body.id;
        const index = post_id -1;

        data.posts.splice(index, 1);
        res.send(data.posts)
    })

So when I try to do the put route i came up with this, although later i also found out i could just use data.posts[index].name = etc... but I decided to open this question because i have really curiosity in how something can this could work (obviously something similar since the following code does not work):

 data.posts.filter(post => {
            post.id === req.params.postId;
        }).then(post => {
            post.id = req.body.id,
            post.name = req.body.name,
            post.url = req.body.url,
            post.text = req.body.text,
            post.comments = [
                req.body.comments
            ]
        })

What am trying to do there is once the correct post has been filtered, then modify the properties of that post. I´ve been doing javascript for months but i have always been blindly following tutorials and never stop to actually learn how callbacks work or how that code is not possible. But because i see similar code to work (callbacks in express), i was wondering if somebody could give some direction.

As i said i already have the simple solution sorted it out but i am very curious in how i could so something like that with the filter function (or just educate me in how this things works)

Answer

Since the Array#filter method is synchronous and returns the filtered array, you can chain the Array#map function to it in order to transform the elements of the filtered array. There’s no need for a “callback” or promise in the sense that the code is all synchronous … for iterative methods like map and filter, the function argument is typically called an “iteratee”.

So for your last code block, you can simply do something like this:

const filteredAndModifiedPosts = data.posts.filter(post => {
  return post.id === req.params.postId;
}).map(post => {
  post.id = req.body.id,
  post.name = req.body.name,
  post.url = req.body.url,
  post.text = req.body.text,
  post.comments = [
    req.body.comments
  ]
  return post
})

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