Axios posting empty request

I am trying to send an axios request to the backend, but it ends up having an empty body, and i do not understand why it does that.
This is the code for the request:

axios

body

axios.post('/register', {email: email, password: password, username: username, company: company}).then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
});


And this is the code for the backend:

authRouter.post('/register', (request, response) => {
console.log(request.body);

});


And this one outputs an empty request.body. I've also checked the JSON sent, and it is not empty at all. Is there a way to see what is the form of the request before being sent?
This authRouter is a module.export, that is being used by the main app module. This app module has this configuration:

request.body

JSON

authRouter

module.export

app

app

app.use(express.static("public"));
app.use(session({ secret: "shh", resave: false, saveUninitialized: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());

app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'pug');

app.use(authRouter);

https.createServer({key: fs.readFileSync('ssl/key.pem'), cert: fs.readFileSync('ssl/cert.pem')}, app).listen(8080);


body-parser

app

body-parser

urlencoded

axios

Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded

axios

1 Answer
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The issue came from the fact that body-parser wants an x-www-form-urlencoded request, and I wasn't providing one. I've set the header for the axios request to it, and the code looks like this:

body-parser

x-www-form-urlencoded

axios.post( '/register',
{email: email, password: password, username: username, company: company},
{headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}}).then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
});


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