including/using body-parser

controllers/runs.js

@@ -14,4 +14,9 @@ controller.get('/:id', function(req, res){
 	res.json(runs[req.params.id]);
 });
 
+controller.post('/', function(req, res){
+	console.log(req.body.distance);
+	res.send('works');
+})
+
 module.exports = controller;

package.json

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/mahuntington/runs#readme",
   "dependencies": {
+    "body-parser": "^1.15.2",
     "ejs": "^2.5.1",
     "express": "^4.14.0"
   }

server.js

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 var express = require('express'); //require express package
 var app = express(); //create application variable
+var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
 var PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;
 
+app.use(bodyParser.json());
+
 var runController = require('./controllers/runs.js');
 app.use('/runs', runController);