Question: Ive created a portfolio website for myself, there is a gallery which users can enter, click on a thumbnail and then go to a new html page with the full image and description. Now on this full image page i have a list of other fullimage pages for project 2,3,4,5, etc.. 

But obviously manually updating project2.html to have a list of all other projects minius project 2 in the sub nav is very tedious and mistakes will occus when i have to do it for all 12 plus pages. So im after the page people are viewing not to appear in that sub nav.

My problem is.. Do i scrap the custom html site and move onto a cms.. The logical step for this sort of dynamic nav. Or do i try and include php if possible. Can anyone suggest the best approach for this, im aware it might in the longrun be easier to run off a cms but i do like the control i get and knowledge i hand crafted my html.

Thanks
Mat

Answer: 
When I use bodyParser it is marked as deprecated. To avoid this I use the following code with express instead of bodyParser.

**Notice:** the routes must declared finally this is important! Other answers here described the problem well.

```
const express = require("express");
const app = express();

const routes = require('./routes/api');

app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));

// Routes must declared finally
app.use('/', routes);

```
adding `express.urlencoded({ extended: true })` to the route solves the problem. 

```
router.post('/save',express.urlencoded({ extended: true }),  "your route");

```