Styjun

I'm trying to authenticate and login a user immediately after submitting a POST on the /register form. Ideally, I would like users to be able to register and then be redirected immediately to the dashboard without having to enter their credentials again.

My server is using Passport 0.1.17 with the local strategy configured to use email address and password for login. The current code is:

app.post('/register', function(req, res) 

 // attach POST to new User variable
 var registerUser = new User( email: req.body.email, password: req.body.password, name: req.body.name );

 // save registerUser Mongo
 registerUser.save(function(err) 
 if(err) 
 console.log(err);
 else 
 console.log('registerUser: ' + registerUser.email + " saved.");
 
 );

 // here is where I am trying to authenticate and then redirect
 passport.authenticate('local', failureRedirect: '/login', failureFlash: true ),
 res.redirect('/dashboard');
 );

How would I refactor this code to save the new user, then authenticate and finally redirect to the dashboard?

Thanks in advance!

Here's the solution I came up with after reading about req.login:

app.post('/register', function(req, res) 
 // attach POST to user schema
 var user = new User( email: req.body.email, password: req.body.password, name: req.body.name );
 // save in Mongo
 user.save(function(err) 
 if(err) 
 console.log(err);
 else 
 console.log('user: ' + user.email + " saved.");
 req.login(user, function(err) 
 if (err) 
 console.log(err);
 
 return res.redirect('/dashboard');
 );
 
 );
);

I would like to clean it up a bit and think that the err section could be more robust, but this is a functioning solution. Note that is someone else implements this, they should be aware that it is tailored to using the passport-local strategy with email instead of username.

I think you're looking for the register method, which will register (and hide the password)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/passport-local-mongoose (search the register method).

app.post('/register', function(req, res) 

 // New user variable created.
 // Note: Password is not part of the new User variable; you don't want to simply store sensitive information in the database.
 var registerUser = new User( email: req.body.email, name: req.body.name );

 // Register new user. Note the 2nd variable (password). If registration's successful (no errors), redirect.
 registerUser.register(registerUser, req.body.password, function (err, newUser)
 if(!err)
 passport.authenticate('local', req, res, function()
 res.redirect('/dashboard'); 
 );
 
 );
);