Send a response to Angular.js in Node.js

Question

Im using Angular with Node and would to send a response to the client-side controller from a GET request.

The line of code Im using to send the response seems not to be working when I use native Node as opposed to Express.js

Here is my angular controller:

app.controller('testCtrl', function($scope, $http) {

        $http.get('/test').then(function(response){ 

            $scope = response.data;

        });

});

This is routed to essentially the following server script:

http.createServer(function onRequest(req, res){ 

    if(req.method==='GET'){

        var scope = 'this is the test scope';

        res.json(scope); // TypeError: res.json is not a function           
    }   

}).listen(port);

res.json() throws an error unless I use an express server

var app = express();

app.all('/*', function(req, res) {

    if(req.method==='GET'){

        var scope = 'this is the test scope';

        res.json(scope); // OK!         
    }

 }).listen(port);

I was pretty sure the json() function came with node. How do I send a response back to angular when using a native Node server?

Maria Ines Parnisari · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-28 00:05:02Z

3

res.json is not in the API for HTTP response.

The standard way would be to use res.write() (docs) and then res.end() (docs). But in your case, since you're not sending a lot of data you can use a shortcut and just use res.end() with a data parameter :)

answered Nov 28, 2016 at 0:05

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yevg Over a year ago

ah! so simple. I also had to stringify the json data: res.end(JSON.stringify(context));

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