How to send data from html to node.js

Question

I\'m a rookie in web languages so please do excuse me if my question is foolish. Basically I\'m trying pass data from html-form to node.js server but e

Answer 1

I would highly suggest using a framework like Express for a more pleasant Node.js interactions. So the first thing you would have to do is install it:

npm install express

And for my example, I'll install an additional middleware, called body-parser.

npm install body-parser  // this allows us to access req.body.whatever

After that make a simple server to handle your POST requests, like this:

const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true })); 

app.post('/example', (req, res) => {
  res.send(`Full name is:${req.body.fname} ${req.body.lname}.`);
});

const port = 8080;

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Server running on port${port}`);
});

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And here is our HTML form: So we're sending our data to our localhost [http:// 127.0.0.1], port 8080 and a route of /example --> All that was configurated in our little Express server

  First name: 

  Last name: 

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