Coding NodeJS APIs (pt 4) - Learn how to build APIs with NodeJS & AWS

Validation of data being sent into an API is critical. The sooner you can catch any potential issues, the quicker you can send a message back to the user telling them what to fix. We're going to use express-validator to sanitize our API inputs.

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Hey Brian! Excellent content, mate. Just a quick one about the check('rating').isNumeric(). doesn't the code need an else statement? otherwise, although the response status is 400, it still adds an entry to the DB with a string value from my testing