How to Read POST Request Body - Node.js Tutorial 9

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[ahmedyousif]

thanks bro, I spent the past hour wondering why am undefined request body

[katabolik-dev]

Thanks for the video. Was racking my brain as to why it wasn't working even though my syntax was right. It was something as simple as checking the data-type in the postman request to "JSON".

[manuelfash]

love your openess, thanks . i was doing some extensive reading on getting json and this was nice

[eudeamonism]

do we have to use the body-parser package?

[NotSar]

why doesnt this work? it says 'cannot get api/test'

[francescocaccavale]

What app do you use to send post requests?

[Felipekimst]

hello!

i am trying to get node to read the body of my request, but it returns an empty object



server
app.use(express.json())


app.post('/db', (req, res)=>{

console.log(req.body)
res.send(req.body)
})

client

var uri = '/db'
var obj = {hi:"hello"}
var js = true

function poster(data = obj){
fetch(uri,
{
method:'POST',
headers:{ 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},


body:JSON.stringify(data)
}).then((res)=>{

console.log('post res', res)
if(res.ok){
if(!js){
res.text().then(t=>{
console.log('text', t)
document.body.append(t)
})
}else{
res.json().then(j=>{
console.log(j)
})}
}else{
console.log('res not okay', res)
}
})
}

do you know why is that happening?