Node Express Jade - Checkbox boolean value

Question

I\'m using Node+Express+Jade to render some webpages. On a form there are 2 checkboxes. When the form is submitted through POST, if the checkbox is checked, I get req.

Answer 1

I solved this problem. Firstly I just want to say that I use jade/pug template engine (+bootstrap 4.1) with ExpressJS on NodeJS.

div.form-group.form-check
   if customer.status
       input#checkbox.form-check-input(type="checkbox" name="status" value="true" checked)
   else
       input#checkbox.form-check-input(type="checkbox" name="status" value="false")

NodeJS - customer.js

// Update: Update a customer that given id
router.post('/update/:id', (req, res, next) => {

    const customerId = req.params.id;
    // let { name, email, city, country, status } = req.body;

    // Convert value to Boolean
    req.body.status = Boolean(req.body.status); 

    console.log(req.body); // true | false

    Customer.updateOne({ _id: customerId }, req.body).then( /* ... */)

}

Another Simple Example:

html, jade or pug file

NodeJS Javascript file

app.post('/update/:id', (req, res, next) => {

     // Firstly, we can try it
     console.log(req.body.status); // Output: undefined

     // Then we should convert this value to Boolean
     req.body.status = Boolean(req.body.status);

     console.log(req.body.status) // Output: false or true
}

I hope my solutions help you