I am trying to follow a tutorial on how to set up sessions with express, but am having an issue with getting a response. Whenever I POST to ‘/’ I never get a response and I get no error message. I can POST to register just fine. Not sure what the issue is, help would be appreciated.
app.js
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
require('dotenv').config();
}
var createError = require('http-errors');
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
//var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var logger = require('morgan');
var mongoose = require("mongoose");
const passport = require("passport");
//const dotenv = require('dotenv').config();
//const dotenv2 = require('dotenv')
const flash = require('express-flash');
const session = require("express-session");
const mongoDb = process.env.MONGODB_URL;
const bcrypt = require("bcrypt");
//imports passport function from file
const initializePassport = require('./passport-config');
initializePassport(passport,
username => users.find(user => user.username === username),
id => users.find(user => user.id === id)
);
const users =[];
mongoose.connect(mongoDb, { useUnifiedTopology: true, useNewUrlParser: true });
const db = mongoose.connection;
db.on("error", console.error.bind(console, "mongo connection error"));
var indexRouter = require('./routes/index');
var usersRouter = require('./routes/users');
const { cookie } = require('express-validator');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'pug');
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(flash())
app.use(session({
secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET,
resave:false,
saveUninitialized:false
}))
app.use(passport.initialize())
app.use(passport.session());
//app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use('/', indexRouter);
app.use('/users', usersRouter);
app.get('/', async(req, res, next) => {
res.render('login.pug');
});
app.post('/', passport.authenticate('local', {
successRedirect: '/homepage',
failureRedirect: '/',
failureFlash:true
}));
app.post("/register", async(req, res) => {
console.log("Here");
try {
const hashedPassword = await bcrypt.hash(req.body.password, 10);
users.push({
id: Date.now().toString(),
username: req.body.username,
password:hashedPassword,
})
res.redirect('/');
} catch {
res.redirect("/register");
}
console.log(users);
});
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
next(createError(404));
});
// error handler
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
// set locals, only providing error in development
res.locals.message = err.message;
res.locals.error = req.app.get('env') === 'development' ? err : {};
// render the error page
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error');
});
module.exports = app;
passport-config.js
const LocalStrategy = require('passport-local').Strategy
const bcrypt = require('bcrypt');
function initialize(passport, getUserByUsername, getUserById) {
console.log("testing");
const authenticateUser = async (username, password, done) => {
const user = getUserByUsername(username);
if(user == null) {
return done(null, false, { message:' No user with that name found' });
}
try {
if (await bcrypt.compare(password, user.password)) {
return done(null,user);
} else {
return done(null,false, { message: 'Incorrect password' });
}
}
catch (e){
return done(e);
}
}
passport.use(new LocalStrategy({username: 'username'},
authenticateUser));
passport.serializeUser((user, done) => {null, user.id});
passport.deserializeUser((id,done) => {return done(null, getUserById(id))});
}
module.exports = initialize;