Express.js POST req.body empty
<p>So I have the following code in my server.js file that I'm running with node.js. I'm using express to handle HTTP requests.</p>

<pre><code>app.post('/api/destinations', function (req, res) {
  var new_destination = req.body;
  console.log(req.body);
  console.log(req.headers);
  db.Destination.create(new_destination, function(err, destination){
    if (err){
      res.send("Error: "+err);
    }
    res.json(destination);
  });
});
</code></pre>

<p>I'm running the following in Terminal:</p>

<pre><code>curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"location": "New York","haveBeen": true,"rating": 4}' http://localhost:3000/api/destinations
</code></pre>

<p>After running that server.js prints out the following.</p>

<pre><code>{}
{ host: 'localhost:3000',
  'user-agent': 'curl/7.43.0',
  accept: '*/*',
  'content-type': 'application/json',
  'content-length': '53' }
</code></pre>

<p>So req.body is <code>{}</code>. I read other Stack Overflow posts about similar issues where content-type was not correct because of body-parser. But that isn't the issue because content-type is application/json.</p>

<p>Any ideas how to get the actual body of the request?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>