Body parser express

Body-parser npm

$ npm install body-parser

Source: npmjs.com

Body parser

var express = require('express')
  var bodyParser = require('body-parser')
  var app = express()
  // parseapplication/x-www-form-urlencoded
  app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }))
  // parse application/json
  app.use(bodyParser.json()) app.use(function (req, res) {  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain')  res.write('you posted:\n')  res.end(JSON.stringify(req.body, null, 2))})

Source: npmjs.com

Body-parser node

// Express/Connect top-level generic
// This example demonstrates adding a generic JSON and URL-encoded parser as a top-level middleware, which will parse the bodies of all incoming requests. 
// This is the simplest setup.

var express = require('express')
var bodyParser = require('body-parser') 
var app = express() 

// parse application/x-www-form-urlencoded
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })) 

// parse application/json
app.use(bodyParser.json()) 

app.use(function (req, res) {
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain')  
  res.write('you posted:\n')  
res.end(JSON.stringify(req.body, null, 2))})

Source: npmjs.com

Body parser use

var express = require("express");
var app = express();
var bodyParser = require("body-parser");
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));

Body parser express

app.use(express.json()); //Used to parse JSON bodies

Source: medium.com

Bodyparser purpose

//body-parser helps parse json files
//you can use body-parser anytime you need to use a form to post
//data to a request
var bodyParser = require("body-parser"); 
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));

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