Express.js get http method in controller

Question

I am building a registration form (passport-local as authentication, forms as form helper).

Because the registration only knows GET and POST I would like to do the whole

Answer 1

Now you can use a package in npm => "method-override", which provides a middle-ware layer that overrides the "req.method" property.

Basically your client can send a POST request with a modified "req.method", something like /registration/passportID?_method=PUT.

The

?_method=XXXXX

portion is for the middle-ware to identify that this is an undercover PUT request.

The flow is that the client sends a POST req with data to your server side, and the middle-ware translates the req and run the corresponding "app.put..." route.

I think this is a way of compromise. For more info: method-override