Introduction to body-parser

‘body-parser’ package provides a middleware that is used to parse the request body before handling it over to the actual router.

Is body-parser handles multi-part requests?

No, to handle multi-part request use one of following packages.

a.   busboy and connect-busboy

b.   multiparty and connect-multiparty

c.    formidable

d.   multer

What are the parsers provided by body-parser?

a.   JSON body parser

b.   Raw body parser

c.    Text body parser

d.   URL-encoded form body parser

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