A Controller is a class which contains methods to be used as end points. You can consider it like a section or area where different resource & services are available.

e.g - A Fort may have sections - WeaponSection, LibrarySection, MeetingSection etc.

Now consider a real world application created for university may have sections - StudentSection, TeacherSection, LibrarySection etc.

A controller has following members -

• Request - request
• Response - response
• Cookie - cookie
• Session - session
• Query string data - query
• Post data - body
• Route parameter - param
• Data from other components - data

Creating controller

Controller is a class which extends the class "Controller" from fortjs.

Example

import { Controller } from "fortjs";

export class UserController extends Controller {

}

In order to make this controller active, you need to assign it to routes of Fort. A controller is associated with a path.

import { Fort } from "fortjs";
import { UserController } from "./controllers";


Fort.routes = [{
    controller: UserController,
    path: "/user"
}]

In the code we are adding our controller into routes array along with a path. The path is used to associate the controller with a top level route.

e.g - Consider your website is abc.com , so when user hits the url - "abc.com/user" then the controller - 'UserController' will be called.

Note :- You must have worker inside the controller otherwise it won't work.