Express.js Tricks Extended - Code with Hugo - May 13th 2019
An update to the Express built-in body-parsing middleware post to fix my misinterpretations, add some structure and show how to parse urlencoded bodies.
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Read and parse POST/PATCH/PUT request JSON or form body with Express and no dependencies: body-parser is a dependency of Express and its main JSON parsing and url encoded body parsing functionality is exposed as express.json() and express.urlencoded() ie. middleware for parsing the most common request bodies is built into Express.
Examples of use in projects, express.urlencoded at github.com/HugoDF/express-nunjucks-tailwind/blob/master/server.js, express.json at github.com/HugoDF/express-postgres-starter/blob/master/server.js.
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