Passing data to view...

[bookshelf]

Passing data to view...

[tgriesser]

Hi @projectfledge - since the database calls are asynchronous, you'll need to use the then method - which is known as a "promise"... resolving with the "books" collection (I believe you meant to put Bookshelf.Collection.extend on the Books line. It will look like this:

var Book = Bookshelf.Model.extend({
    tableName: 'books'
});

var Books = Bookshelf.Collection.extend({
    model: Book
});

app.get('/books', function(req, res) {
   new Books().fetch().then(function(theBooks) {
     res.render('books', {books: theBooks});
   });
});

let me know if that clears that up - you can read a bit more about promises here.

[tgriesser]

I see you altered the original question - are you sure it's not because you have Bookshelf.Model.extend instead of Bookshelf.Collection.extend on that fifth line?

[tgriesser]

@projectfledge - Also, that passes the raw collection to the view (like you'd have in Backbone) - if you just want the json for the view, you'll need to use collection.toJSON()

[projectfledge]

Thank you! The issue was the Bookshelf.Model.Extend whereas it should have been Collection.

I was looking at the collections section of the documentation and saw the accounts example under forge http://bookshelfjs.org/#Collection-forge var Accounts = Bookshelf.Model.extend({

Cheers

[tgriesser]

Ah, thanks for pointing that out - I'll fix it right now.