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user5051092
user5051092

Reputation:

Ajax requests with Node.js

After looking around google and stack overflow, I'm yet to find a way to post data to my Node.js server.

There seems to be disparity between the methods I've seen, presumably due to depreciation.

One method I saw was this code:

var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();

app.use(express.bodyParser());

app.get('/endpoint', function(req, res){
    var obj = {};
    obj.title = 'title';
    obj.data = 'data';

    console.log('params: ' + JSON.stringify(req.params));
    console.log('body: ' + JSON.stringify(req.body));
    console.log('query: ' + JSON.stringify(req.query));

    res.header('Content-type','application/json');
    res.header('Charset','utf8');
    res.send(req.query.callback + '('+ JSON.stringify(obj) + ');');
});

app.post('/endpoint', function(req, res){
    var obj = {};
    console.log('body: ' + JSON.stringify(req.body));
    res.send(req.body);
});

I get the error:

TypeError: express.createServer is not a function
    at Object.<anonymous> (c:\Users\Tobi\Desktop\ChangeLog\ChangeLog\app.js:2:19)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
    at startup (node.js:146:18)
    at node.js:404:3

I did some reading and saw that Express had stopped coming with "middle-ware" and they would need to be included seperately - I also got an error message saying so.

What is the current / best way to implement Ajax Post requests to my server?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 83

Answers (2)

coffee_addict
coffee_addict

Reputation: 966

Since you're using JSON I would use the json function instead of send this way your app sends the response with the correct content-type and automatically converts the passed string to a JSON object. The body-parser also has a function to work with JSON received from the client.

Here's some example code:

var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.json());

app.post('/endpoint', (req, res) => {
    res.json({
        helloWorld: 'hello world!',
        msg: req.body.message
    });
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
    console.log('server listening at port 3000');
});

Old answer

createServer is deprecated since express 3. You should use the express function instead.

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

Edit

@robertklep mentioned the express bodyparser is also deprecated.

You can now get this middleware as a separated module via NPM

npm install body-parser

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');

Please visit this link for a list of middleware which are now separated from express itself.

Upvotes: 1

kidroca
kidroca

Reputation: 3856

Here is an example from the documentation about how to define routes correctly: express

Reading your question without looking the example it sounded like the actual request to node was failing.

Here is a code block you can start from and build additional routes. 

 var express = require('express');
 var app = express(); 

 app.get('/', function (req, res) {
     res.send('Hello World!');
 });

 app.listen(3000, function () { 
     console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!'); 
});

You can verify routes are working correctly with a browser or a tool like postman

Upvotes: 0

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