I have an Angular application with a form that makes AJAX requests. Emailing works fine, but no matter what I set the response to, I get an error for the path '/send'. I assume Node.js expects the path '/send' to render a template or data, but I just want the path to handle emailing! I use a modal pop-up for the form and Angular UI routing for paths.
app.get('/send', function (req, res, err) {
var cartContent = req.body.slice(1,20);
var content = tableify(cartContent);
var sendit = {
to: '*****@gmail.com',
from: '****@bluenightphoto.com',
replyTo: req.body[0].email,
subject: "CP Carpet Quote Request: " + req.body[0].fname + " " + req.body[0].lname , // REQUIRED.
html: '<b>Customer Quote</b>' + '<br>' + 'Customer Name: ' + req.body[0].fname + " " +
'<br>' + 'Message: ' + req.body[0].message + '<br>' + <b>Table</b>'+ '<br><br>' + content,
};
// Transporter refers to nodemailer and sendit is the login details(mail works fine!)
transporter.sendMail(sendit, function (req, res, err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err + "something strange...");
res.status(401).send("that's all folks");
} else {
res.status(200).send("nothing here");
console.log("Message sent!");
}
transporter.close();
});
});
Despite successful emailing, my error handler always receives a 404 response.
EDIT: I have tried the two solutions below, but they did not work.
Here is the Angular AJAX code:
var makeForm = function () {
if (mailJson[1].total !== 0) {
deferred.resolve(mailJson);
console.log('values loaded successfully again');
$http({
method : 'GET',
url : '/send',
data : mailJson,
headers : {
'Content-type' : 'application/json'
}
}).success(function () {
console.log('success!');
$scope.alertEmailOk = true;
}).error(function (err) {
console.log('there was an error indeed ' + err);
$scope.alertEmailOk = false;
});
} else {
console.log('no values!');
deferred.reject(mailJson);
}
return deferred.promise;
};
The line console.log('there was an error indeed ' + err); always fires...maybe I need to send data back?
Here's the error handler in my Express code:
if (app.get('env') === 'production') {
// changes it to use the optimized version for production
app.use('/', express.static(path.join(__dirname, '/dist')));
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}