# Parsing Request Bodies — Fastify: Building High-Performance Node.js APIs

Source: https://www.skillbyai.com/en/fastify/ff-body-parsing

> Parse JSON, form and multipart request bodies with built-in handlers and the multipart plugin.

## Content-Type driven parsing

Fastify automatically parses request bodies based on `Content-Type`. JSON, URL-encoded forms, and multipart are supported out of the box.

## JSON request bodies

Access `request.body` after Fastify parses the JSON.

```javascript
fastify.post('/users', async (req) => {
  // req.body is already parsed from Content-Type: application/json
  const { name, email } = req.body;
  return { id: 1, name, email };
});
```

## File uploads with multipart

For file uploads, use the `@fastify/multipart` plugin to handle multipart/form-data.