How to force parse request body as plain text instead of json in Express?

Question

I am using nodejs + Express (v3) like this:

app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.route(\'/some/route\', function(req, res) {
  var text = req.body; // I expect         


        

Answer 1

Make sure the version of express and bodyParser has been upgraded to the appropriate versions. Express ˜4.x and bodyParser ˜1.18.x. That should do it. With that in place the following should work

app.use(bodyParser.text());