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Use body-parser to Parse POST Requests
The body-parser should already be added to your project if you used the provided boilerplate, but if not it should be there as:
"dependencies": {
"body-parser": "^1.19.0",
...
"express": "^4.17.1"
}
You can run npm install body-parser to add it as a dependency to your project instead of manually adding it to the package.json file.
This guide assumes you have imported the body-parser module into your file as bodyParser.
In order to import the same, you just need to add the following line at the top of your file:
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
All you need to do for this challenge is pass the middleware to app.use(). Make sure it comes before the paths it needs to be used on. Remember that body-parser returns with bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}). Use the following as a template:
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
In order to parse JSON data sent in the POST request, use bodyParser.json() as the middleware as shown below:
app.use(bodyParser.json());
The data received in the request is available in the req.body object.
Do not forget that all these statements need to go above any routes that might have been defined.