Express.js : POST data sent as KEY ONLY in my req.body object

Question

I am currently having an issue with my POST request.

I have a simple function that is responsible of sending data to my server using AJAX.

handleSubmit(event) {

var http = new XMLHttpRequest(); // object allwos us to make http requests 

//Lets make a request
http.open("POST", "http://localhost:3000/register", true);//set up the request for us: type of request we want, where we want the data from, do we want it to be sync or async?

http.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

//each time the ready state changes on the http object, it will fire this function. 
http.onreadystatechange = function(){
    console.log(http); // lets see the ready state changing... 

    //once the ready state hits 4(request is completed) && status is 200 (which is okay), lets do something with data.
    if(http.readyState == 4 && http.status == 200){

    }else{
      console.log('Error: ' + http.status); // An error occurred during the request.
    }
}

let user = {
  email: "[email protected]"
};

http.send(JSON.stringify(user));
}

My server side code is pretty simple and contains a POST end point.

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

//Body Parser Middleware
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({extended: true}))

app.post('/register', (req, res) => {
    console.log(req);
})

app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}!`))

Now, once handleSubmit fires, the req body of my object becomes the following:

{ '{"email":"[email protected]"}': '' }

I am very confused and I'm not quite sure how to proceed.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Everything seems to be good, You have to declare the Header as json,

http.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json");