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

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.

As described [here][1] for a post request :

var http = require('http');

var options = {
host: 'www.host.com',
path: '/',
port: '80',
method: 'POST'
};

callback = function(response) {
var str = ''
response.on('data', function (chunk) {
str += chunk;
});

response.on('end', function () {
console.log(str);
});
}

var req = http.request(options, callback);
//This is the data we are posting, it needs to be a string or a buffer
req.write("data");
req.end();


[1]:https://docs.nodejitsu.com/articles/HTTP/clients/how-to-create-a-HTTP-request

I use `superagent`, which is simliar to jQuery.

Here is the [docs][1]


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And the demo like:

var sa = require('superagent');
sa.post('url')
.send({key: value})
.end(function(err, res) {
//TODO
});

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

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:' + port);

you can try like this:

var request = require('request');
request.post({ headers: {'content-type' : 'application/json'}
, url: <your URL>, body: <req_body in json> }
, function(error, response, body){
console.log(body);
});

in your server side the code looks like:

var request = require('request');

app.post('/add', function(req, res){
console.log(req.body);
request.post(
{
url:'http://localhost:6001/add',
json: {
unit_name:req.body.unit_name,
unit_price:req.body.unit_price
},
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
},
function(error, response, body){
// console.log(error);
// console.log(response);
console.log(body);
res.send(body);
});
// res.send("body");
});

in receiving end server code looks like:

app.post('/add', function(req, res){
console.log('received request')
console.log(req.body);
let adunit = new AdUnit(req.body);
adunit.save()
.then(game => {
res.status(200).json({'adUnit':'AdUnit is added successfully'})
})
.catch(err => {
res.status(400).send('unable to save to database');
})
});

Schema is just two properties unit_name and unit_price.

Try this. It works for me.

const express = require("express");
const app = express();
app.use(express.json());
const PORT = 3000;

const jobTypes = [
{ id: 1, type: "Interior" },
{ id: 2, type: "Etterior" },
{ id: 3, type: "Roof" },
{ id: 4, type: "Renovations" },
{ id: 5, type: "Roof" },
];

app.post("/api/jobtypes", (req, res) => {
const jobtype = { id: jobTypes.length + 1, type: req.body.type };
jobTypes.push(jobtype);
res.send(jobtype);
});

app.listen(PORT, console.log(`Listening on port ${PORT}....`));