How is an HTTP POST request made in node.js?

Question

How can I make an outbound HTTP POST request, with data, in node.js?

Answer 1

I like the simplicity of superagent (https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent). Same API on both node and browser.

;(async function() {
  var response = await superagent.post('http://127.0.0.1:8125/', {age: 2})
  console.log(response)
})

There is also node-fetch (https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-fetch), which has an API that matches fetch from the browsers - however this requires manual query string encoding, does not automatically handle content types, or so any of the other work superagent does.