express-post-redirect

Express middleware for server side redirection post POST request

Effects

With middleware installed, inside the response object of a POST route will have a finalize(data) function. This should be used instead of response.send() at the end of the route. response.finalize(data) will then send a server-side-redirect if a redirect query exists in the request, otherwise will send the data in the data parameter.

Installation

Requires express to be installed.

1. Run in CLI npm install express-post-redirect

2. In javascript write:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

app.use(require('express-post-redirect'));

Usage

In javascript:

// Any generic post route
app.post('/post/route/here', (req, res) => {
    //... Do something

    res.finalize('Thank you for using express-post-redirect'); //<-- Uses the middleware
});

In HTTP request:

With no query yields:

HTTP/1.1 200
status: 200
x-powered-by: Express
content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
connection: keep-alive
Thank you for using express-post-redirect'

With query yields:

HTTP/1.1 302
status: 302
x-powered-by: Express
location: REDIRECTQUERYHERE
vary: Accept
content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
content-length: 32
date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:19:20 GMT
connection: keep-alive
Found. Redirecting to index.html

Ripped from my personal-git project.