How can I use body-parser with LoopBack?

Question

I see that LoopBack has the Express 3.x middleware built-in. Indeed, body-parser is in loopback/node_modules. But I cannot figure out how to use it as middlewar

Answer 1

In Loopback ^3.22.0, I can suffice by adding the

"parse": {
    "body-parser#json": {}
  },

to the server/middleware.json in order to consume application/json post bodies in the server/boot/routes.js

module.exports = function(app) {
  app.post('/api/sayhello', function(req, res, next) {
     console.log(req.body)