I have a simple API route set up in Express (consumed mainly via my Angular frontend):

 app.post('/api/sendEmail', emailApi.sendEmail);

I've made a module that sits in my backend and also needs to call this service. I figured the easiest way was to do a POST request:

  request({

    url: '/api/sendEmail',

    method: 'POST',

    json: {

      template: template.toLowerCase(),

      obj: mailObj

    }

  }, function(error, response, body){

    console.log('error', error);

    console.log('response', response);

    console.log('body', body);

  });

However, I get this error:

 Error: Invalid URI /api/sendEmail

What am I doing wrong here?