body-parser doc
var express = require('express') var bodyParser = require('body-parser') var app = express() // create application/json parser var jsonParser = bodyParser.json() // create application/x-www-form-urlencoded parser var urlencodedParser = bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }) // POST /login gets urlencoded bodies app.post('/login', urlencodedParser, function (req, res) { res.send('welcome, ' + req.body.username) }) // POST /api/users gets JSON bodies app.post('/api/users', jsonParser, function (req, res) { // create user in req.body })