Params from axios.get request are undefined on the express back end

Question

I'm trying to create a search feature, but when I try to pass data ( params ) to the back end with an axios.get request, it is showing undefined .

My react app request handling function:

handleSearch() {
  API.search(this.state.searchType, this.state.searchValue)
  .then(response => { 1 }).catch(error => console.log(error));
}

The above seems to work perfectly as far as I can tell. Those state values are valid and I did test that they were defined at this point.

My axios/API function:

search: function(searT, searV) {
    let searchData = {
      'searchType': searT,
      'searchValue': searV
    };
    return axios.get('/search', searchData).then(response => 1);
  }

The above appears to be correct according to the axios docs and every other resource I've found. The searT and searV values are passed to this point successfully.

Back end express function:

app.get('/search', function(request, response) {
    let {searchType, searchValue} = request.params;
    console.log('SearchType: ' + searchType + ' and SearchValue: ' + searchValue); //both return undefined
  });

searchType and searchValue are undefined here, what the heck?!

I've seen plenty of similar issues out there, but none seem to help me solve this issue. I am wondering if it's something to do with my server.js file, but my axios.post requests work fine.

I feel like this will be my derp of the week after I figure it out, but for now it's killing me.

What solved this question, thanks to Montgomery and react-node:

return axios.get('/search', { params: searchData }).then(response => 1);

app.get('/search', function(request, response) {
        let {searchType, searchValue} = request.query;
      });

Answer 1

just change

return axios.get('/search', searchData).then(response => 1);

to

return axios.get('/search', {params:searchData}).then(response => 1);

and on the server-side you should change request.params to request.query

Answer 2

searchType and searchValue are getting passed in the query string, so it's necessary to access them with request.query .

As pointed out by @react-node, the data was also being passed incorrectly to the axios.get call. To correctly pass the query string parameters with axios.get , it needs to look like this:

return axios.get('/search', {
  params: searchData
}).then(response => 1);