I see that LoopBack has the Express 3.x middleware built-in. Indeed, body-parser is in loopback/node_modules
. But I cannot figure out how to use it as middleware. I have never worked with Express 3.x, so maybe it's just that. require
does not work, obviously, unless I install body-parser as a dependency in my project.
What should I do in server.js
to use body-parser so that web forms are parsed into req.params
? That's what it does, right?
After hours of frustration, I just added it to middleware.json
like so:
"parse": {
"body-parser#json": {},
"body-parser#urlencoded": {"params": { "extended": true }}
}
It is installed as a dependency. Now I have form data in req.body
in my routes. My server/boot/routes.js
looks like this:
module.exports = function(app) {
app.post('/mailing_list', function(req, res) {
console.log(req.body.email);
res.send({"status": 1, "message": "Successfully added to mailing list."})
});
}