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Here is my html:

<form action='/new'  method='POST' >
  <span>pool name: </span>
  <input type="text" name="name" />
  <input type="hidden" name="imageSrcList" />
  <button type='submit' >Create new</button>
</form>

And here is the relevant JS:

var app = express()
app.use(fileUpload());
app.set('view engine', 'ejs')
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/views'));

---

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

The console reads out:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined

I have tried with console.log(req.body) and this also is undefined.

Thanks in advance!

Here is my html:

<form action='/new'  method='POST' >
  <span>pool name: </span>
  <input type="text" name="name" />
  <input type="hidden" name="imageSrcList" />
  <button type='submit' >Create new</button>
</form>

And here is the relevant JS:

var app = express()
app.use(fileUpload());
app.set('view engine', 'ejs')
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/views'));

---

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

The console reads out:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined

I have tried with console.log(req.body) and this also is undefined.

Thanks in advance!

• javascript
• node.js
• express
• request

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Sorted by: Reset to default 8

You're missing the body-parser middleware which is necessary to have req.body set to a value. Express doesn't e with this by default and will need to be installed via NPM npm i --save body-parser

const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
app.use(bodyParser.json())
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}))