Expressjs data not being passed to view - node.js

Question

I have a route set up to be able to access individual database records based on their ID. On my homepage ('/') I am pulling all of the records, but only showing 10 records per page with express-paginate module. When I click on Read More, I am sent to the appropriate record's page, but for some reason, I am not seeing any of my CSS styles and the data that I'm passing to this view is coming back as undefined. Individual records are being accessed by /blog/blogpost_id
routes.js:
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var blogDB = require('../config/blogDB.js');
var Blogpost = require('./models/blogModel.js');
var paginate = require('express-paginate');
//index
router.use(paginate.middleware(10, 50));
router.route('/')
// START POST method
.post(function(req, res) {
var blogpost = new Blogpost(); // create a new instance of a Blogpost model
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // set the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // set the author name
blogpost.tagline = req.body.tagline; // set the tagline
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // set the blog content
blogpost.category = req.body.category; // set the category
blogpost.tags = req.body.tags; // set the tags
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // set the date of the post
//Save Blog Post
blogpost.save(function(err) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
res.json({ message: 'Blog created.' });
});
}) // END POST method
// START GET method
.get(function(req, res, next) {
Blogpost.paginate({}, req.query.page, req.query.limit, function(err, pageCount, blogpost, itemCount) {
if (err) return next(err)
if (err)
res.send(err);
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // get the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // get the author name
blogpost.tagline = req.body.tagline; // get tagline
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // get the blog content
blogpost.category = req.body.category; // get the category
blogpost.tags = req.body.tags; // get the tags
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // get the date of the post
res.format({
html: function() {
res.render('pages/index', {
blogpost: blogpost,
pageCount: pageCount,
itemCount: itemCount
})
},
json: function() {
res.json({
object: 'blogpost',
has_more: paginate.hasNextPages(req)(pageCount),
data: blogpost
})
}
}); // END res.format(html, json)
}); // END Blogpost.paginate
}); // END GET method
//Route for individual blogs
router.route('/blog/:blogpost_id')
// START GET method blog by ID
.get(function(req, res) {
var blogpost = new Blogpost(); // create a new instance of a Blogpost model
Blogpost.findById(req.params.blogpost_id, function(err, blogpost) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // update the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // update the author name
blogpost.tagline = req.body.tagline; // update the tagline
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // update the blog content
blogpost.category = req.body.category; // update the category
blogpost.tags = req.body.tags; //update the tags
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // update the date of the post
//res.json(blogpost);
res.render('pages/blogpost', {
blogpost: blogpost
});
});
}) // END GET method blog by ID
// START PUT method
.put(function(req, res) {
Blogpost.findById(req.params.blogpost_id, function(err, blogpost) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // update the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // update the author name
blogpost.tagline = req.body.tagline; // update the tagline
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // update the blog content
blogpost.category = req.body.category; // update the category
blogpost.tags = req.body.tags; //update the tags
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // update the date of the post
blogpost.save(function(err) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
res.json({ message: 'Blog updated.' });
});
});
}) // END PUT method
// START DELETE method
.delete(function(req, res) {
Blogpost.remove({
_id: req.params.blogpost_id
}, function(err, bear) {
if (err)
res.send(err);
res.json({ message: 'Successfully deleted' });
});
});
//about
router.get('/about', function(req, res) {
res.render('pages/about');
});
module.exports = router;
blogpost.ejs
<html>
<head>
<% include ../partials/head %>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<% include ../partials/header %>
</header>
<div class="grid">
<div class="col-1-1">
<div class="blog-content">
<h1><%= blogpost.title %></h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<footer>
<% include ../partials/footer %>
</footer>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1

You are overwriting your blogpost content in your router.route('/blog/:blogpost_id').get() method. See these lines:
blogpost.title = req.body.title; // update the blog title
blogpost.author = req.body.author; // update the author name
blogpost.tagline = req.body.tagline; // update the tagline
blogpost.content = req.body.content; // update the blog content
blogpost.category = req.body.category; // update the category
blogpost.tags = req.body.tags; //update the tags
blogpost.date = req.body.date; // update the date of the post
…you're overwriting the blogpost that you just got with (most likely) empty variables, since this is in your GET method.