Accessing raw POST data in Express

Question

I\'m trying to write a stupidly simple Hello World program in Express that outputs some basic data about the current HTTP request.

For POST requests, I\'d like to se

Answer 1

In order to read the body of a post request you need body-parser. If you also need to parse multipart/form-data you need multer.

after you npm install them:

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

// create application/json parser
app.use(bodyParser.json());

// create application/x-www-form-urlencoded parser
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));

function handleRequest(req, res) {
    console.log('\n-- INCOMING REQUEST AT ' + new Date().toISOString());
    console.log(req.method + ' ' + req.url);
    console.log(req.body);
    res.send('Hello World!');
}

app.post('/*', upload.any(), (req, res) => handleRequest(req, res));
app.all('/*', (req, res) => handleRequest(req, res));
app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!'));