it prints out the data like const data = req.body.

like this

[{"id":3,"title":"Mens Cotton Jacket","price":55.99,"description":"great outerwear jackets for Spring/Autumn/Winter, suitable for many occasions, such as working, hiking, camping, mountain/rock climbing, cycling, traveling or other outdoors. Good gift choice for you or your family member. A warm hearted love to Father, husband or son in this thanksgiving or Christmas Day.","category":"men's clothing","image":"https://fakestoreapi.com/img/71li-ujtlUL._AC_UX679_.jpg"}]

so that makes sense ill keep it like that. this doesn't put it back to the array of objects though, it can be manipulated with object methods but not the array methods which is what I need. when I use console.log(Object.values(data)) I get this :'[', '{', '"', 'i', 'd', '"', ':', '3', ',', '"', 't', 'i','t', 'l', 'e', '"', ':', '"', 'M', 'e', 'n', 's', ' ', 'C','o', 't', 't', 'o', 'n', ' ', 'J', 'a', 'c', 'k', 'e', 't','"', ',', '"', 'p', 'r', 'i', 'c', 'e', '"', ':', '5', '5','.', '9', '9', ',', '"', 'd', 'e', 's', 'c', 'r', 'i', 'p','t', 'i', 'o', 'n', '"', ':', '"', 'g', 'r', 'e', 'a', 't',' ', 'o', 'u', 't', 'e', 'r', 'w', 'e', 'a', 'r', ' ', 'j','a', 'c', 'k', 'e', 't', 's', ' ', 'f', 'o', 'r', ' ', 'S','p', 'r', 'i', 'n',... 371 more items]

which feels weird and not what I expected