The API endpoint to read a single user's data is declared in the following route.
mern-skeleton/server/routes/user.routes.js:
router.route('/api/users/:userId').get(userCtrl.read)
When the Express app gets a GET request at '/api/users/:userId', it executes the userByID controller function to load the user by the userId value in the param, and then the read controller function.
mern-skeleton/server/controllers/user.controller.js:
const read = (req, res) => { req.profile.hashed_password = undefined req.profile.salt = undefined return res.json(req.profile)}
The read function retrieves the user details from req.profile and removes sensitive information, such as the hashed_password and salt values, before sending the user object in the ...
