Why can't I receive the request query in for my delete request?

Question

There is no response in the console.log when I run this code, but I don't understand why?

        async function deleteUser(){
            const deleteUser = await fetch(`http://localhost:8000/restApi/userModel/delete?acc=${id}`)
        }


        router.delete('/delete', async (req,res)=>{
            console.log(JSON.stringify(req.query))

        })

Answer 1

The default method of fetch is a GET request, but on your router you've only specified behavior for a DELETE request.

Not sure which fetch module you're using, but it may have a shortcut such as fetch.delete(url) - check the docs to be sure. You can also simply change the expected method to a GET with router.get('/delete', ... , but I wouldn't recommend this - it would make more sense for an API to not have a delete route, but rather just a route where GET returns the object and DELETE deletes it.