I am trying to develop an app with few APIs, the issue I am facing here is when I use
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
as my middleware, it doesnt intake the requests i send through postman (all the request sent through postman goes with empty body idk why. And it takes all the requests sent via html form.
On the other hand, if I use
app.use(express.json({extended: false}))
as my middleware to parse json objects, it takes all the requests from postman but doesnt take requests from my browser form. Can anyone explain whats happening here?
In order for express to be able to parse both JSON request payloads and simple form-data requests, you simply need to setup both of the mentioned middlewares (note that express.json() does not have an extended option):
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(express.json());
See the docs for more information:
https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#express.json https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#express.urlencoded