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•Created by 2ram on 4/15/2025 in #help

Issue with sign up using express

Hi, I have been running in to an issue where my express server returns 422 Unprocessable Entity any time the client sends a sign up request. I have included my prisma schema, better auth config and my index.ts file (I have pretty much copied exactly whats on the better auth docs). Looking at the incoming requests on the express server, I can see the sign up requests come through however I noticed that the request body was undefined. Looking at the actual request through the network I can see that body is included in the post request. I have no issues adding data to the db manually through psql. Any ideas on what is causing this issue? auth.ts

import { betterAuth } from "better-auth";
import { prismaAdapter } from "better-auth/adapters/prisma";
import { prisma } from "../prisma/client";

export const auth = betterAuth({
  database: prismaAdapter(prisma, {
    provider: "postgresql",
  }),
  emailAndPassword: {
    enabled: true,
  },
  session: {
    cookieCache: {
      enabled: true,
      maxAge: 5 * 60,
    },
  },
});

import { betterAuth } from "better-auth";
import { prismaAdapter } from "better-auth/adapters/prisma";
import { prisma } from "../prisma/client";

export const auth = betterAuth({
  database: prismaAdapter(prisma, {
    provider: "postgresql",
  }),
  emailAndPassword: {
    enabled: true,
  },
  session: {
    cookieCache: {
      enabled: true,
      maxAge: 5 * 60,
    },
  },
});

index.ts

import express from "express";
import cors from "cors";
import dotenv from "dotenv";
import { toNodeHandler } from "better-auth/node";
import { auth } from "./utils/auth";

dotenv.config();

const app = express();
const port = process.env.PORT || 3005;

app.use((req, res, next) => {
  console.log("--- Incoming Request ---");
  console.log("Request URL:", req.url);
  console.log("Request IP:", req.ip);
  console.log("Request Body:", req.body);
  console.log("------------------------");
  next();
});

app.use(
  cors({
    origin: "http://localhost:1420",
    methods: ["GET", "POST", "PUT", "OPTIONS"],
    credentials: true,
  }),
);

app.all("/api/auth/*splat", toNodeHandler(auth));

app.use(express.json());

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`app listening on port ${port}`);
});

import express from "express";
import cors from "cors";
import dotenv from "dotenv";
import { toNodeHandler } from "better-auth/node";
import { auth } from "./utils/auth";

dotenv.config();

const app = express();
const port = process.env.PORT || 3005;

app.use((req, res, next) => {
  console.log("--- Incoming Request ---");
  console.log("Request URL:", req.url);
  console.log("Request IP:", req.ip);
  console.log("Request Body:", req.body);
  console.log("------------------------");
  next();
});

app.use(
  cors({
    origin: "http://localhost:1420",
    methods: ["GET", "POST", "PUT", "OPTIONS"],
    credentials: true,
  }),
);

app.all("/api/auth/*splat", toNodeHandler(auth));

app.use(express.json());

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`app listening on port ${port}`);
});

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