Well, the answer lies in setting up a middleware function that creates a property called body on the request object that you can then make use of in your route handling function.
The Packages
As of this writing, in express 4.x, you gotta do the following.
Install the body-parser package in your dependencies
npm install body-parser --save
The Application Code
If you have an app.js or an index.js which acts as the starting point for your application, include the following lines in your middleware before you define your route handling functions.
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
extended: true
}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
Hereafter, you should be able to access the POST body in all of your your routes as shown below
myRouter.post('/somePattern',function(req, res, next){
console.log(req.body);
});
You can also read more about the other options in the github readme here.
