How to get GET (query string) variables in Express.js on Node.js?

Question

Can we get the variables in the query string in Node.js just like we get them in $_GET in PHP?

I know that in Node.js we can get the URL in the request.

Answer 1

you can use url module to collect parameters by using url.parse

var url = require('url');
var url_data = url.parse(request.url, true);
var query = url_data.query;

In expressjs it's done by,

var id = req.query.id;

Eg:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.get('/login', function (req, res, next) {
    console.log(req.query);
    console.log(req.query.id); //Give parameter id
});