Basic Node and Express - Get Data from POST Requests

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
Getting an error message:
Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘first’)
Console in browser shows:
POST https://fcc-boilerplate-express-2.rigo205.repl.co/name 500

Your code so far
app.post(“/name”, function(req, res) {
// Handle the data in the request
var string = req.body.first + " " + req.body.last;
res.json({ name: string });
});

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Basic Node and Express - Get Data from POST Requests

Link to the challenge:

My repl:
https://fcc-boilerplate-express-2.rigo205.repl.co/

2

Hi @rigo205

Perhaps share the link to your project’s source code instead of the live project.

3

I have tested your code but I don’t see any error.

4

Here is my code

Uncomment point number 12

5

Middleware has to be used before the routes. You need to use bodyParser before the route that needs it.

6

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