title: How to tell Express NOT to parse the query string of the request?
body: <p>I know that Express checks for query string (e.g. ?a=1&amp;b=2) and parses it if present by default. And that req.query is the object which contains the key/value pairs. Is there a way of disabling this behavior and ignore the qs completely?<br> I need this because I parse the query string client side, and since I receive a huge amount of requests and the qs are pretty long I don't want to waste server resources each time parsing the query string (which means that Express would need to decode URI components in the string, split the string, do a for loop for each key value pair, do another split for each pair, create a new object etc. which is very expensive). Is this possible?</p>