gotchas.md

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.

/lifecycles/middleware.js

const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

/**
 * Introduce new middleware layers to the stack.
 *
 * @param {Gasket} gasket Reference to the gasket instance
 */
module.exports = function middleware(gasket) {
  return bodyParser.json(/* 
    Valid options. See:
    https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser#bodyparserjsonoptions
  */);
};