Sending Empty {} After Form "post" With Pug In Node.js

I'm trying to pass form data from login page to signin page via post using fetch with this pug code: form(id='form-login') input(type='text', name='email', value='', placeholde

Solution 1:

So I was having the same issue where the POST request from my pug form was sending back an empty {} as the req.body object. The code was a simple create action using these:

bookController.js

exports.createBookForm = (req,res) => {
  res.render("create_book_form", { title: "Add A New Book"})
}

exports.createBook = (req,res) => {
  const reqFields = ["title", "author"];

  for (let i = 0; i < reqFields.length; i++) {
    const field = reqFields[i];

    if (!field in req.body) {
      const message = `Missing ${field} in the request body`;
      console.log(message)
      return res.status(400).send(message)
    }
  }

  Book
    .create({
      title: req.body.title,
      author: req.body.author,
      summary: req.body.summary
    })
    .then((book) => {
      res.status(201).json(book.serialize())
    })
    .catch(err => {
      console.log(err);
    })
}

And the create book form:

block content
  h1 Add a Book
  h3 Do use real details. Otherwise, what's the point?

  form(method="POST" action="/books")
    div.form-group
      label(for="title") Title:
      input#title.form-control(type="text", placeholder="Small Gods" name="title")
      label(for="author") Author:
      input#author.form-control(type="text", placeholder="Terry Pratchett" name="author")
      label(for="summary") Summary:
      textarea#summary.form-control(type="text", placeholder="God is turtle, world is flat" name="summary")
      div.form-group
        button.btn.btn-primary(type="submit" role="submit") Add Book

What finally fixed getting the actual req.body to show up for the POST action was adding (within server.js)

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

Let me know if this works for you. Took me a couple hours to come to this conclusion and I hate seeing questions go unanswered.

Solution 2:

You should move "new FormData" inside "send" event listener. Also, there's missing comma after type="submit", but overall, the problem got nothing to do with pug :)

form(id="form-login")
    input(type="text", name="email", value="", placeholder="Tu email")
    br
    input(type="password", name="password", value="", placeholder="Tu contraseña")
    br
    input(type="submit",value="Conectar")
script.
    const formLogin = document.querySelector('#form-login');

    formLogin.addEventListener('submit', function(event) {
    const formData = new FormData(formLogin);

        console.log('Form Data: ', formData);
        event.preventDefault();
        fetch('/signin', {
            method: 'POST',
            body: formData
        })
        .then(function(res) {
            res.json();
        })
        .then(function(data) {
            console.log(data)
            localStorage.setItem('token', data.token)
        })
    });