Calling already defined routes in other routes in Express NodeJS

Question

I am writing a web app in node.js using Express. I have defined a route as follows:

app.get(\"/firstService/:query\", function(req,res){
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Answer 1

Can you simply break this out into another function, put it in a shared spot and go from there?

var queryHandler = require('special_query_handler'); 
// contains a method called firstService(req, res);

app.get('/firstService/:query', queryHandler.firstService);

// second app
app.get('/secondService/:query', queryHandler.secondService);

Honestly, this whole business of nesting the call back inside of the app.get(...) is not really a great practice. You end up with a giant file containing all of the core code.

What you really want is a file filled with app.get() and app.post() statements with all of the callback handlers living in different, better organized files.