Im stuck, need help badly

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.

The tests are not passing. if someone can help me point where the issue is…

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solution: Glitch :･ﾟ✧

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Get Data from POST Requests

Link to the challenge:

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The order of your code matters. You register POST /name before you register the bodyParser middleware. Therefore req.body is undefined when calling POST /name.

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I’m sorry I didnt understand what you meant, today is my first day working with express and I dont understand half the stuff that I learnt so far. Could you please help me understand it better, Do you mean the variable bodyParser has to be initialized within the body of app.post?

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At the moment you are first registering POST /name:

app.post("/name", function(req, res) {
  var string = req.body.first + " " + req.body.last;
  res.json({ name: string });
});

And after that you register the body-parser middleware:

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());

In Express the middleware is run in the order you register it. So if you don’t register body-parser before POST /name you don’t have access to req.body (which is set by body-parser) inside the function which handles the POST request.

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Thanks very much bud…I was able to fix the issue and definitely learnt something important…

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