Pretty much cloned users.js in the api folder and made it recipes.js

server/api/recipes.js

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+import APIRoute from "../APIRoute.js";
+
+export default class UsersAPI extends APIRoute {
+    constructor() {
+        super('/recipes');
+
+        this.addSubRoute('/create', 'post', createRecipe);
+    }
+
+    async get(req, res) {
+        res.send('GET request');
+    }
+
+    async post(req, res) {
+        res.send('POST request');
+    }
+
+    async createRecipe(req, res) {
+        let recipe = req.body;
+
+        let db = req.app.get('mongo').recipes;
+
+        let result = await db.create({
+            userID: recipe.userID,
+            ingredients: recipe.ingredients,
+            productName: recipe.productName,
+            nutritionFacts: recipe.nutritionFacts,
+            rating: recipe.rating,
+            cuisine: recipe.cuisine,
+            expense: recipe.expense,
+            mealType: recipe.mealType
+        });
+
+    }
+}