I'm trying to make a post request passing json data. When the request arrives on my express server, it does not have a body. What am I doing wrong?
const http = require('http');
const req = http.request({
hostname: 'localhost',
port: 8080,
path: '/',
method: 'POST'
}, (res) => {
res.on('end', () => {
//
});
});
req.write(JSON.stringify({ something: 'something' }));
req.end();
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.json());
app.post('/', (req, res) => {
console.log(req.body); // undefined
res.send();
});
app.listen(8080);
I have to use the http library of nodejs.
You should:
/ handler. Handlers are called in order so with your current approach, the / will fire and end the chain without reaching the middleware.Content-Type: application/json request header to the client-side code so that the body parser will not skip over it because it doesn't recognise the (un)declared data type.