I am trying to send html form data to server via a fetch 'POST' request but at server side I am getting Empty request body. I have already tried different solutions provided on stack overflow but none of them is working at my end. could anyone please help me identify where I am going wrong.
I have the form with id 'signup-form' in my html file
client side JavaScript the code goes like below:
const myForm = document.getElementById('signup-form')
myForm.addEventListener('submit', (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
const myForm = document.getElementById('signup-form')
const data = new FormData(myForm)
const option= {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-type': 'application/json'
},
body:JSON.stringify(data)
}
fetch('/login', option).then(
response => response.json()
).then(
data => console.log(data)
).catch(
error => console.log(error)
)
})
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false}))
app.use(express.json())
app.post('/login', (req, res) => {
console.log('url is', req.url)
const info = req.body;
console.log('info is:', info)
res.status(201).json({ 'submitted': true })
})
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('listening on port 3000')
})
With FormData you cannot POST application/json, because that is not on the list of content types supported by a form element.
Instead, write something like
const data = {element1: "value", element2: "value2", ...};