Redux action req.body undefined for express route - node.js

Question

I've been struggling with this feature that's supposed to send redux-form values to my express server and awaiting mongoose model.
The request body once reached the express route doesn't contain the form values that I've sent in the redux-action. The form values are properly console.logged on the client-side (inside the submitInvestment action). Though, once sent to express (using axios) -> console logging the req.body shows undefined
form.js
<form onSubmit={this.props.handleSubmit((values) => { this.props.submitInvestment(values) })}>
export default connect(null, actions)(reduxForm({ form: 'investmentForm' })(InvestmentForm))
actions.js
export const submitInvestment = (values) => async dispatch => {
console.log('before request')
console.log(values)
const res = await axios.post('/api/investments', values);
console.log('after request', res.data)
// dispatch({ type: FETCH_USER, payload: res.data });
};
route.js
module.exports = app => {
app.post('/api/investments', async (req, res) => {
console.log(req.body)
res.sendStatus(200);
});
}
on form submission (console.log browser)
+ server logs an undefined req.body
Additionally; when I attempt to catch the request with the fully built route.js
module.exports = app => {
app.post('/api/investments', async (req, res) => {
const { currency, units, date } = req.body;
const investment = new Investment({
currency,
units,
date,
_user: req.user.id
});
try {
await investment.save();
res.status(200);
} catch (err) {
res.status(422).send(err);
}
});
}
then my server logs are
[0] (node:25154) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): TypeError: Cannot match against 'undefined' or 'null'.
[0] (node:25154) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Answer 1

The incoming request needs to be handled by the body parser middleware
App.js
app.use(bodyParser.json());