How to send a POST request from node.js Express?

Question

Could someone show me the simplest way to send a post request from node.js Express, including how to pass and retrieve some data? I am expecting something similar to cURL in PHP.

Answer 1

var request = require('request');  function updateClient(postData){             var clientServerOptions = {                 uri: 'http://'+clientHost+''+clientContext,                 body: JSON.stringify(postData),                 method: 'POST',                 headers: {                     'Content-Type': 'application/json'                 }             }             request(clientServerOptions, function (error, response) {                 console.log(error,response.body);                 return;             });         } 

For this to work, your server must be something like:

var express = require('express'); var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); var app = express(); app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })); app.use(bodyParser.json())  var port = 9000;  app.post('/sample/put/data', function(req, res) {     console.log('receiving data ...');     console.log('body is ',req.body);     res.send(req.body); });  // start the server app.listen(port); console.log('Server started! At http://localhost:' + port);