I've encountered this issue in a few of my previous apps and I'm unsure what's causing it. When I navigate to the login page and successfully log in a user, everything works as expected and I have access to the logged-in user. However, when I try to register a new user using the register route, despite calling passport.authenticate, the user is not authenticated and I end up with no user to work with. I even tried writing the register post route in callback format instead of using async/await, but that didn't make a difference. The strange part is that the users do get added to the database, so they are indeed registered.
Here is the code snippet:
router.get('/register', function(req, res) {
res.render('register')
});
router.post('/register', async (req, res) => {
try{
var newUser = new User({username: req.body.username});
await User.register(newUser, req.body.password);
await passport.authenticate('local');
console.log("The user is authenticated: " + req.isAuthenticated())
res.redirect('/');
}
catch(err) {
console.log(err);
res.redirect('/');
}
});
The console.log always returns false.
User model:
var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
passportLocalMongoose = require('passport-local-mongoose');
var UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
username: String,
password: String
});
UserSchema.plugin(passportLocalMongoose);
module.exports = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);
Register page template:
<% include ./partials/header %>
<h1>Please Sign-Up</h1>
<form action='register' method='POST'>
<label>Username</label>
<input type='text' name='username'>
<label>Password</label>
<input type='password' name='password'>
<button type='submit'>Submit</button>
</form>
<% include ./partials/footer %>
In my app.js file:
app.use(function(req,res,next) {
console.log("Current user is: " + req.user)
res.locals.currentUser = req.user;
next();
});
Any help or insights on this matter would be greatly appreciated.