Cant get request payload in express js node

Question

This is my Node Express Code,

(function () {
    \'use strict\';
    var fs = require(\'fs\');
    var cors = require(\'cors\');
    var bodyParser = requir         


        

Answer 1

You need to send: Content-Type: application/json for bodyParser.json() to work, without it, your JSON payload won't be parsed, that's why you get: {}

From the docs:

The bodyParser object exposes various factories to create middlewares. All middlewares will populate the req.body property with the parsed body when the Content-Type request header matches the type option, or an empty object ({}) if there was no body to parse, the Content-Type was not matched, or an error occurred.

Example using .fetch:

fetch('http://localhost:4200/dashboard', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({dd: 'dd'})
});