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683 PointsApp.post vs App.get
Can someone explain the difference between these to me? There isn't a lot online as far as comparing the two. If you have examples along with the explanation I will love you.
I defaulted to creating app.get for goodbye route here, not the app.post - so I'm clearly missing something here.
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Travis Alstrand
Treehouse TeacherPutting it in the simplest way possible, a GET request is used to fetch data and bring it back and a POST request is used to submit / store data.
So when a user wants to see a certain webpage, they're sending a GET request for that data.
And if a user wants to store something, like data from a form for example, they would use a POST request.