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Common "Gotchas"

body-parser not enabled by default​

You may encounter middlewares that assume body-parser is included earlier in your middleware chain. This is somewhat common among modules in the express ecosystem since body-parse is very commonly used. We don't want Gasket apps to host full-out APIs (you should have a separately deployed API) so we don't normally need JSON parsing included.

To work around this simply include it in the handler for the middleware hook. e.g.

example-plugin-middleware.js

import bodyParser from 'body-parser';

/**
 * Introduce new middleware layers to the stack.
 *
 * @param {Gasket} gasket Reference to the gasket instance
 */
export default {
  name: 'example-plugin-middleware',
  hooks: {
    middleware(gasket) {
      return bodyParser.json(/* 
        Valid options. See:
        https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser#bodyparserjsonoptions
      */);
    }
  }
};