In one application I’m building, I had this problem.

Using Express, I can import body-parser to parse the body as JSON:

import bodyParser from 'body-parser'

app.use(bodyParser.json())

However to integrate with the Stripe payments API I had the need to expose the raw body (not parsed) into an endpoint, and I couldn’t figure out how to do it, while still parsing the body as JSON.

This did the trick:

app.use(bodyParser.json({
  verify: (req, res, buf) => {
    req.rawBody = buf
  }
}))

Now the raw body is available on req.rawBody and the JSON parsed data is available on req.body.

From the body-parser GitHub I found that this doubles the RAM usage for every request, but since I need this functionality, I have no other way.

Except perhaps creating a different server just for the Stripe webhook I wanted to handle.

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	Axios crashes the Node.js process when the request fails
2:	How to set up a cron job that runs a Node.js app
3:	▶︎ How to get both parsed body and raw body in Express
4:	Interact with the Google Analytics API using Node.js
5:	How to bulk convert file names using Node.js
6:	How to deep copy JavaScript objects using structuredClone
7:	How to handle file uploads in Node.js
8:	How to send an email using nodemailer
9:	Logging all the requests coming through an Express app
10:	How to upload an image to S3 using Node.js
11:	How to read a CSV file with Node.js
12:	How to set the current working directory of a Node.js program
13:	How to upload files to S3 from Node.js
14:	How to write a CSV file with Node.js
15:	Where to host a Node.js app
16:	Parsing JSON with Node.js
17:	nodemailer, how to embed an image into an email
18:	The Pug Guide
19:	Restarting a Node process without file changes
20:	How to use Sequelize to interact with PostgreSQL