Render HTML Login Form with POST in Express

Render HTML Login Form with POST in Express — a practical guide to Express login form POST with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Use Express to render a login form and read submitted fields from `req.body` after enabling URL-encoded parsing.

Form + POST handler

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

app.get('/login', (req, res) => {
  res.send(`<form method="POST" action="/login">
    <input name="email" placeholder="Email" />
    <input name="password" type="password" />
    <button>Login</button>
  </form>`);
});

app.post('/login', (req, res) => {
  res.send(`Welcome ${req.body.email}`);
});

app.listen(3000);