How I am gonna solve req.body.password undefined in express.js?

Question

Hello devs I am building an API using EXPRESS.JS AND MongoDB and performing some tests with postman. But I am getting the req. body. password field is undefined when I try to parse it using postman however I am able to parse the name and the email but the password is undefined. I need help !

bellow are my files

This is my userController.js file

const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
const bcrypt = require('bcryptjs');
const asyncHandler = require('express-async-handler');
const User = require('../models/userModel');


// @Desc Register New User
// @Routes POST /api/users
// @Access Public
const userRegister = asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
  const {name, email, password} = req.body;
  res.json({name: `${name}`, email: `${email}`, password: `${password}`});

  if (!name || !email) {
    res.status(400);
    throw new Error('Please Enter valid Inputs');
  }
  res.json({ message: 'User Register' });
});

// @Desc Authenticate User
// @Routes POST /api/users/login
// @Access Public
const userLogin = asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
  res.json({ message: 'User Login' });
});

// @Desc User Data
// @Routes POST /api/users/member
// @Access Public
const userMember = asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
  res.json({ message: 'User Member' });
});

// @Desc User Data
// @Routes GET /api/users
// @Access Public
const userProfile = asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {
  res.json({ message: 'User Profile' });
});

module.exports = {
  userRegister,
  userLogin,
  userMember,
  userProfile,
};

And here is my server.js

const express = require('express');
const colors = require('colors');
const dotenv = require('dotenv').config();
const { errorHandler } = require('./middleware/errorMiddleware');
const connectDB = require('./config/db');
const port = process.env.PORT || 8000;

connectDB();

const app = express();

// Middleware

app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

// Routes
const postRoute = require('./routes/postRoutes');
const userRoute = require('./routes/userRoutes');

app.use('/api/posts', postRoute);
app.use('/api/users', userRoute);

app.use(errorHandler);

app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Server running on http://localhost:${port}`));

The route file is

const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();

// import User controllers
const {
  userRegister,
  userLogin,
  userMember,
  userProfile,
} = require('../controllers/userController');

router.route('/').post(userRegister);
router.route('/member').post(userMember);
router.route('/login').post(userLogin);
router.route('/profile').get(userProfile);
module.exports = router;

Here is the userModel.js file

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    name: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
      unique: true,
    },
    email: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
      unique: true,
    },
    password: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
    },
    profilePicture: {
      type: String,
      default: '',
    },
  },
  { timestamps: true }
);

// Exporting the schema
module.exports = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);

And finally, this is the output from POSTMAN

Answer 1

I was able to solve it just by changing this

const {name, email, password} = req.body;

to

const {name, email, pass} = req.body;

Updating password to pass

This change makes it work for me

Thank you so much for your support

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