I am trying to get "POST" method form data from HTML form using app.post method but I can catch anything to req.body. What am I doing wrong?
My html form -
<form method="POST" action="/success.html">
<div id="input-area">
<textarea id="title" name="title" rows="1" cols="75" placeholder="Title" onkeyup="instance.tweaker()"></textarea>
<textarea rows="10" type="text" cols="75" placeholder="Description" name="description"></textarea>
<div id="calender"><input id="dater" type="date" value=""></div>
<button type="submit" value="Submit" id="buton">Add Task</button>
</div>
</form>
<script src="backend2.js" defer></script>
my js code
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const app = express();
app.listen(3308,() =>{
console.log('My server is running');
})
const jsonParser = bodyParser.json();
//
const urlencodedParser = bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })
app.post('/success.html', urlencodedParser , function (req, res) {
console.log(req.body.title);
})
I reproduced your code without any error. To test it quickly, i send the index.html as the default route.
const express = require('express');
const path = require('path');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const port = 3308;
const app = express();
const urlencodedParser = bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false });
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '/index.html'));
});
app.post('/success.html', urlencodedParser, (req, res) => {
res.send(req.body.title);
});
app.listen(port, () => {
console.info(`server running on port ${port}`);
});
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Upload Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" action="/success.html">
<div id="input-area">
<textarea
id="title"
name="title"
rows="1"
cols="75"
placeholder="Title"
onkeyup="removedForExample"
></textarea>
<textarea
rows="10"
type="text"
cols="75"
placeholder="Description"
name="description"
></textarea>
<div id="calender"><input id="dater" type="date" value="" /></div>
<button type="submit" value="Submit" id="buton">Add Task</button>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
First of all, I am not sure which version of Express you are using but if you are using version 4.0 or up, you don't really need to import body-parser separately.
Also, you may re-order the code. Why don't you try like this?
const jsonParser = bodyParser.json();
const urlencodedParser = bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })
app.post('/success.html', urlencodedParser , function (req, res) {
console.log(req.body.title);
})
app.listen(3308,() =>{
console.log('My server is running');
})