Postman unable to send request body to express application-CodePudding

I am making a simple post request as follows:

app.post('/', (req, res) => {
  return res.status(200).json(req.body)
})

When I give a post request through postman, nothing comes up its just an empty {}. Here is server.js:

const express = require("express");
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const passport = require("passport");
const app = express();
// Bodyparser middleware


const users = require("./routes/api/users");

 
app.use(
  bodyParser.urlencoded({
    extended: true
  })
);
app.use(bodyParser.json());
// DB Config
const db = require("./config/keys").mongoURI;
// Connect to MongoDB
mongoose
  .connect(
    db,
    { useNewUrlParser: true }
  )
  .then(() => console.log("MongoDB successfully connected"))
  .catch(err => console.log(err));


// Passport middleware
app.use(passport.initialize());
// Passport config
require("./config/passport")(passport);
// Routes
app.use("/api/users", users);

const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Server up and running on port ${port}`));

app.post('/', (req, res) => {
  return res.status(200).json(req.body)
})

And here is the Postman snippet:

CodePudding user response：

Your POST body is empty. You are are using query params in your post request. Click on the Body tab in Postman and add your request body there.

{
  "name": "abcxyz",
  "age" : 92
}

CodePudding user response：

You are using query parameters

?name=abcxyz&age=69

In your example you can access these in express by using req.query:

app.post('/', (req, res) => {
   return res.status(200).json(req.query)
})