what's the difference between koa-body vs koa-bodyparser?

Question

I'm developing node server using koa.js

I have looked for some libraries for body parser.

And there are several kinds of koa body parser.

But I don't know what differences btw them including koa-body and koa-bodyparser.

Can you explain it?

Thank you in advance.

Akerley

Answer 1

[New answer]

koa-body now support koa version 2. The main difference now remains about file payload parsing. The koa-bodyparser cannot parse files, i.e. multipart/form-data.

[Old answer]

Oh, I got it.

https://github.com/koajs/koa/wiki

koa-body supports koa v1, koa-bodyparser supports koa v2.

And former can parse file, but later can't.

Thanks.

Akerley

koa-body does support Koa v2, you just have to get the right branch by doing npm install koa-body@next. I've edited the wiki to prevent any confusion for other people. – Denizen

@DAESONG KIM latter* :D – Surveillance

@saadq are the two branches merged now? I can only see one repository on the wiki. – Dogmatize

Answer 2

Both are Koa body parser middleware. I recently faced an issue where I wanted to handle file upload and there comes the main difference.

Koa-body supports -- koa, urlencoded, multipart, json, body, parser, form and

koa-bodyparser supports -- json, urlencoded, koa, body.

So if you are looking for file uploading features , go ahead with koa-body or koa-better-body (which has more wider scopes)

Here is detailed reference

Baseburner