I'm working on an API with NodeJS and Express (and more stuff like mongo, sockets, etc) but i'm stuck on a very simple step I believe. I'm just trying to get the information from the POST req object, but I get an error when trying to access req.body

Here's what I have:

var express     = require('express'),

    http        = require('http'),

    path        = require('path'),

    fs          = require('fs'),

    io          = require('socket.io');

    dynroute    = require('dynroute');



var app = express();

app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3999);

app.use(express.favicon());

app.use(express.logger('dev'));

app.use(app.router);

app.use(express.bodyParser());



app.post('/user', function(req, res) {



    console.log(JSON.stringify(req.body));

    res.send(req.body.self);

});



http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function ()

{

    console.log('App Server is now running at:' + app.get('port'));     

});

On the console.log(JSON.stringify(req.body)); I get undefined and on the res.send(req.body.self); I get TypeError: Cannot read property 'self' of undefined

I've been seaching for this type of error and usually the issue is that people do not include app.use(express.bodyParser()); middleware , so I also tried using app.use(express.urlencoded()); and app.use(express.json());, which didn't work either.

If I do a console.log(req) I can see the entire object but I do not get to see body or any of the content I'm passing when doing the POST request from a client (I'm passing it as JSON).

**I know I could use restify or sails.js to build APIs within Node but i want to do everything myself so I can learn from the experience.*

Thanks

EDIT:
I had to put the bodyparser middleware before the app.router middleware, that fixed it!