nodejs: Koa , form in pug gives undefined

Question

I have a form in pug with just one input

form(action="/" method="POST")
 label Enter URL to shorten
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 input(name="url" type="url") 
 button(type="submit") Submit

I use koa-pug to get the input

async function handleForm (ctx) {
   console.log(ctx.request.body);
}

However this logs undefined

I also use koa-body as body parser

app.use(body());

Answer 1

In your form, you are calling your koa backend with a POST method. So to get the body, you need to use something like co-body,

...
const parse = require('co-body');
...

async function handleForm (ctx) {
  let body = await parse(ctx);
  console.log(body);
}