nodejs express, ajax posting w/ jquery and receiving response

Question

Having some trouble getting express to respond properly to my jquery ajax request. The actual posting is working fine, but no matter what I try I cant seem to actually get a

Answer 1

Pastor Bones' comment was particularly important to me, as I was using $.ajax to post to a Node server. My relevant portion of code ended up like this:

// Incoming parameter "teams" is an array of objects
function saveTeams(teams) {
    var xhr;
    var data = JSON.stringify({ teams: teams });

    xhr = $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "http://localhost:8000/saveteam",
        contentType: "application/json",
        data: data,
        headers: {
            Authorization: "..."
        }
    });

    return xhr;
} 

Note that the contentType header is relevant for the parsing to work.

On the node server side, I can process the payload like this:

saveTeams: function (req, res, next) {
    var teams = req.body.teams;

    if (teams.length > 0) {
        console.log("Teams to be added:");
        for (var i = 0; i < teams.length; i++) {
            console.log(teams[i]);
            // ...
        }
    }
    // ...
}