Handling text/plain in Express (via connect)?

With bodyParser as dependency, add this to your app.js file.

var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.text());

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app.use(function(req, res, next){
  if (req.is('text/*')) {
    req.text = '';
    req.setEncoding('utf8');
    req.on('data', function(chunk){ req.text += chunk });
    req.on('end', next);
  } else {
    next();
  }
});

Will add the text as req.text

In express.js "^4.16..." the following code works fine for me:

// parse an HTML body as a string
app.use(bodyParser.text({ type: 'text/*' }))

The extended piece of the code is below:

// parse an HTML body as a string
app.use(bodyParser.text({ type: 'text/*' }))

// Enable CORS for ExpressJS
app.use((req, res, next) => {
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS')
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true)
  res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Methods, Credentials')
  next()
})


// Api url 
app.post('/api/myApi', (req, res) => {

  const bodyJson = JSON.parse(req.body)
  // do something

}