404 Error with simple express routing

Question

I am trying to configure routing in my Node.js application using Express.js and Mongoose.js using this tutorial - https://thinkster.io/mean-stack-tutorial/ When I test cURL, it gives me this message:

(Curl script is: curl --data 'title=test&link=http://test.com' http://localhost:3000/#/posts)

Error: Not Found
    at /Users/adamz/flapper-news3/app.js:30:13
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:82:5)
    at trim_prefix (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:302:13)
    at /Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:270:7
    at Function.proto.process_params (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:321:12)
    at next (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:261:10)
    at /Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:603:15
    at next (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:246:14)
    at Function.proto.handle (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:166:3)
    at router (/Users/adamz/flapper-news3/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.

For reference, my app.js file is as follows:

var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

var routes = require('./routes/index');
var users = require('./routes/users');

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

require('./models/Posts');
require('./models/Comments');

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/news');


var app = express();

// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(__dirname + '/public/favicon.ico'));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

app.use('/', routes);
app.use('/users', users);

// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  var err = new Error('Not Found');
  err.status = 404;
  next(err);
});

// error handlers

// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
  app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
    res.status(err.status || 500);
    res.render('error', {
      message: err.message,
      error: err
    });
  });
}

// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
  res.status(err.status || 500);
  res.render('error', {
    message: err.message,
    error: {}
  });
});


module.exports = app;

And my routes /Index.js:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Post = mongoose.model('Post');
var Comment = mongoose.model('Comment');


/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
  res.render('index', { title: 'Express' });
});

router.get('/posts', function(req, res, next) {
  Post.find(function(err, posts){
    if(err){ return next(err); }

    res.json(posts);
  });
});


router.post('/posts', function(req, res, next) {
  var post = new Post(req.body);

  post.save(function(err, post){
    if(err){ return next(err); }

    res.json(post);
  });
});

module.exports = router;

Is something wrong? I copied and pasted directly from the tutorial, Node.js is running, mongodb is running, so I'm really not sure what is going on. Let me know if any other information will help. Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

, curl script :

curl --data "title= test & link = http://test.com" " http://localhost:3000/posts"

Answer 2

:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

require('./models/Posts');
require('./models/Comments');

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/news');

var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
...

Answer 3

I followed the same tutorial and got the same error, then just restarted the node server and it worked fine.