express urlencoded code example

Example 1: urlencoded json express

var express = require('express')

var app = express()

app.use(express.json()) // for parsing application/json
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true })) // for parsing application/x-www-form-urlencoded

app.post('/profile', function (req, res, next) {
  console.log(req.body)
  res.json(req.body)
})

Example 2: express request path

// GET 'http://www.example.com/admin/new?a=b'
app.get('/admin', (req, res, next) => {
  req.originalUrl; // '/admin/new?a=b' (full path with query string)
  req.baseUrl; // '/admin'
  req.path; // '/new'
  req.baseUrl + req.path; // '/admin/new' (full path without query string)
});

Example 3: node js http request express

npm install request@2.81.0