2025-04-16 07:43

Status: adult

Tags: computer-science expressjs

Post Requests

// Route to send users
 
app.post("/api/users", (req, res) => {
 
	console.log(req.body);
	
	const { body } = req;
	
	const newUser = {
	
		id: mockUsers[mockUsers.length - 1].id + 1,
		
		...body
	
	};
	
	mockUsers.push(newUser);
	
	return res.status(201).send(newUser);
 
})
 

Explanation

• note: make use of ThunderClient or Postman to make such requests
• first de-structure the body from req in order to get the new information
• we then make a newUser obj that has the id field and then use the spreader operator to add all the other info from body
• push the newUser to the mockUsers and return the 201 status code and the newUser
  • i.e. this json is sent:
    • { “username”: “Ivan”, “displayName”: “Ivan the Great” }
• this is how the response may look like:
  • { “id”: 7, “username”: “Ivan”, “displayName”: “Ivan the Great” }

References

Anson