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Luke Ward
Luke Ward
9,154 Points
Posted by Luke Ward
Luke Ward
9,154 Points

Best practice for displaying login page after unsuccessful login?

After watching the authentication with express videos and following along, I was curious about best practices for redisplaying the login page after an unsuccessful loging. In the videos after the router handler handles the POST request to the /login route and finds a bad login we throw an error which ends up rendering the error page.

Would it be possible to rather than throwing an error to instead call res.render("/login/) and pass Res.locals variable to show a bad login or to redirect back to /login with a query string to show a bad login.

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Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points
Zimri Leijen
Zimri Leijen
11,835 Points

Yes, that would be possible, and I think that would be a good user experience.