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Using post request in middleware in express
We used use() function to execute middleware’s . Example we used below will be executed for both http GET and POST method −
const http = require('http');
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}));
app.use('/', (req, res,next)=>{
next();
});
app.use('/add-username', (req, res,next)=>{
res.send('<form action="/post-username" method="POST"> <input type="text" name="username"> <button type="submit"> Send </button> </form>');
});
app.use('/post-username', (req, res, next)=>{
console.log('data: ', req.body.username);
res.redirect('/');
});
app.use('/', (req, res,next)=>{
res.send('<h1> first midleware: Hello Tutorials Point </h1>');
});
const server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(3000);How to restrict middleware only for GET or only for POST http method etc.
We have http methods like get() and post() etc function similar to use() function.
app.post('/post-username', (req, res, next)=>{
console.log('data: ', req.body.username); res.redirect('/');
});In above code snippet we used post() function. It will restrict a http request to only post types for url path ‘/post-username’
get() function −
app.get('/add-username', (req, res,next)=>{
res.send('<form action="/post-username" method="POST"> <input type="text" name="username"> <button type="submit"> Send</button> </form>');
});Similar to get() and post(), we have delete(), patch, put() functions for respective http requests.
Complete App.js with get() and post() −
const http = require('http');
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}));
app.use('/', (req, res,next)=>{
next();
});
app.get('/add-username', (req, res,next)=>{
res.send('<form action="/post-username" method="POST"> <input type="text" name="username"> <button type="submit"> Send </button> </form>');
});
app.post('/post-username', (req, res, next)=>{
console.log('data: ', req.body.username);
res.redirect('/'); });
app.use('/', (req, res,next)=>{
res.send('<h1> first midleware: Hello Tutorials Point </h1>');
});
const server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(3000);Execute : npm start
Browser output −
localhost:300/add-username
localhost:3000/post-username
Updated on: 13-May-2020
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