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Sending data from angular to express nodejs server running on different domain

So I am trying to send some data I have in angular to my nodejs server. Let me start with my code: index.html

<body ng-app="starter">
        <ion-pane>
        <ion-header-bar class="bar-stable">
            <h1 class="title">Ionic Blank Starter</h1>
        </ion-header-bar>
        <ion-content>
        </ion-content>
        </ion-pane>
      <div ng-controller="myCtrl">
            <form>
                <input type="text" ng-model="message">
                <input type="submit" value="Submit" ng-click="submit()">
            </form>
        </div>
  </body>

Here is a text box with data, then the submit button will send the message and deviceID to the server.

app.js

var app = angular.module('starter', []);
app.controller('myCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
    var devToken;
    var push = new Ionic.Push({
          "debug": true
      });
      push.register(function(token) {
          devToken = token;
          console.log("Device token:", token.token);
      });
    
    $scope.submit = function() {
        
        var message = "Hello";
        $http({
            method: 'POST',
            url: 'http://127.0.0.1:8080', 
            token: devToken,
            message: message
            
        })
    }
})

As you can see, I am trying to grab a message and the deviceID and post it to my express server.

server.js

var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var apns = require('apns');
var gcm = require('node-gcm');

var app = express();

var sender = new gcm.Sender('AIzaS.........plD2s8');

var registrationTokens = [];
registrationTokens.push('Insert Device ID here that is passed from app.js');

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    console.log("DEVICE ID == " + req.body.devToken);
    sender.send("Hello", { registrationTokens: registrationTokens });
    
})

app.listen(8080, function() {
    console.log('running on port 8080');
});

SO to recap, I am needing help getting my data when submitted to be available on my nodejs express server (which runs at a different domain/port than the Angular app). Can anyone help me figure out how to get my data from angular to express nodejs? Any help is appreciated.

thanks

Solution

  • You need to create a route to capture the post:

    app.post('/', function(req, res) {
    console.log(req.body);
    ...
});

    Then the front end could pass whatever you want

        $http.post("/", {message:message, devToken:devToken}).success(function(message, status) {
        console.log('Message posted');
    })

    If the backend is not on the same origin as the OP states in the comments, you would need to enable cross origin requests.

    app.use(function(req, res, next) {
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept");
next();
});

    Note: don't use * for production unless really want to allow requests from anywhere.