How to compare password and confirm password inputs using express-validator ?
Registration or Sign Up on any website always requires a confirmed password input and it must be the same as the password. It is basically to ensure that the user enters the password full of his senses and there is no conflict happening. This functionality can be implemented anywhere in our code like in the index file or route file but this comes under the validation part. So we usually prefer to code this logic where all the other validations are coded. Here we use ‘express-validator’ middleware to implement this functionality.
Prerequisites
Approach to compare and confirm password:
- Create a validator.js file to code all the validation logic.
- Validate confirmPassword by validateConfirmPassword: check(‘confirmPassword’) and chain on all the validation with ‘ . ‘
- Use the validation name(validateConfirmPassword) in the routes as a middleware as an array of validations.
- Destructure ‘validationResult’ function from express-validator to use it to find any errors
- If the error occurs redirect to the same page passing the error information
- If the error list is empty, give access to the user for the subsequent request.
Steps to create application and installing required dependencies
Step 1: Initialized an express app for the project
npm init -y
Step 2: Install the required dependencies
npm i express express-validator body-parser nodemon
Folder Structure:
Folder Structure
The updated dependencies in package.json file will look like:
"dependencies": {
"body-parser": "^1.19.0",
"express": "^4.17.1",
"express-validator": "^6.6.0",
"nodemon": "^2.0.4"
}
Example : This example illustrates how to check if email address is already in use or not for a particular website.
javascript
const express = require( 'express' )
const bodyParser = require( 'body-parser' )
const { validationResult } = require( 'express-validator' )
const repo = require( './repository' )
const { validateConfirmPassword } = require( './validator' )
const signupTemplet = require( './signup' )
const app = express()
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }))
app.get( '/signup' , (req, res) => {
res.send(signupTemplet({}))
})
app.post(
'/signup' ,
[validateConfirmPassword],
async(req, res) => {
const errors = validationResult(req)
if (!errors.isEmpty()) {
return res.send(signupTemplet({ errors }))
}
const { email, password } = req.body
await repo.create({ email, password })
res.send( 'Sign Up successfully' )
})
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Server start on port ${port}`)
})
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Javascript
const fs = require( 'fs' )
class Repository {
constructor(filename) {
if (!filename) {
throw new Error(
'Filename is required to create a datastore!' )
}
this .filename = filename
try {
fs.accessSync( this .filename)
} catch (err) {
fs.writeFileSync( this .filename, '[]' )
}
}
async getAll() {
return JSON.parse(
await fs.promises.readFile( this .filename, {
encoding: 'utf8'
})
)
}
async getOneBy(filters) {
const records = await this .getAll()
for (let record of records) {
let found = true
for (let key in filters) {
if (record[key] !== filters[key]) {
found = false
}
}
if (found) return record;
}
}
async create(attrs) {
const records = await this .getAll()
records.push(attrs)
await fs.promises.writeFile(
this .filename,
JSON.stringify(records, null , 2)
)
return attrs
}
}
module.exports = new Repository( 'datastore.json' )
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Javascript
const getError = (errors, prop) => {
try {
return errors.mapped()[prop].msg;
} catch (error) {
return "" ;
}
};
module.exports = ({ errors }) => {
return `
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel= 'stylesheet'
<style>
div.columns {
margin-top: 100px;
}
.button {
margin-top: 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class= 'container' >
<div class= 'columns is-centered' >
<div class= 'column is-5' >
<h1 class= 'title' >Sign Up</h1>
<form method= 'POST' >
<div>
<div>
<label class= 'label' id= 'email' >
Username</label>
</div>
<input class= 'input' type= 'text'
name= 'email'
placeholder= 'Email' for = 'email' >
</div>
<div>
<div>
<label class= 'label' id= 'password' >
Password</label>
</div>
<input class= 'input' type= 'password'
name= 'password'
placeholder= 'Password' for = 'password' >
</div>
<div>
<div>
<label class= 'label' id= 'confirmPassword' >
Confirm Password</label>
</div>
<input class= 'input' type= 'password'
name= 'confirmPassword'
placeholder= 'Confirm Password'
for = 'confirmPassword' >
<p class= "help is-danger" >
${getError(errors, "confirmPassword" )}
</p>
</div>
<div>
<button class= 'button is-primary' >
Sign Up
</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
`;
};
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Javascript
const { check } = require( 'express-validator' )
const repo = require( './repository' )
module.exports = {
validateConfirmPassword: check( 'confirmPassword' )
.trim()
.isLength({ min: 4, max: 16 })
.withMessage( 'Password must be between 4 to 16 characters' )
.custom(async(confirmPassword, { req }) => {
const password = req.body.password;
if (password !== confirmPassword) {
throw new Error('Passwords must be same')
}
})
}
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Output:
Attempt to sign up when password and confirm password inputs are different
Last Updated :
25 Dec, 2023
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