blue-button-http.js

//to run:
//    # node blue-button-http.js &
//make sure that the NPM modules below are installed
var http = require('http');
var qs = require('querystring');
var bb = require('blue-button');

//Lets define a port we want to listen to
const PORT=8000;
var conn_count = 0;
//We need a function which handles requests and send response
function handleRequest(request, response){
    conn_count++;
    if (request.method == 'POST') {
                var body = [];
                request.on('data', function(chunk) {
                  body.push(chunk);
                }).on('end', function() {
                  body = Buffer.concat(body).toString();
                  });

        console.log("Processing Connection: "+conn_count);

        request.on('end', function () {
                var json=bb.parse(body);
                response.end(JSON.stringify(json, null, 4));
        });
    } else {
    response.end('Issue processing: ' + request.url);
    }
}

//Create a server
var server = http.createServer(handleRequest);

//Lets start our server
server.listen(PORT, function(){
    //Callback triggered when server is successfully listening. Hurray!
    console.log("Server listening on: http://localhost:%s", PORT);
});