Send data from server(nodejs) to client(ajax request)
If I understood it correctly, you want to reply back to client with the original id you got in the request as well as the newly generated id.What I didn't understand is, why are you using redirect if you don't want any page reload?
You could simply,
var obj = { tid: req.body.tid, _id: stuff._id};res.send(JSON.stringify(obj));And, the ajax success handler would be
success: function(data) { var obj = JSON.parse(data); var id = obj._id; doStuff(id);}I guess this is what you want.
Edit:
As pointed by deitch, express itself converts the object into JSON string and adds a Content-Type header for JQuery to correctly identify and parse the string into JSON object. So no need to stringify and parse the data.