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Writing More Middleware

3:27 with Dave McFarland and Jonathan Foster

Add a simple piece of middleware to password protect any page on a site.

The requiresLogin( ) middleware function

function requiresLogin(req, res, next) {
  if (req.session && req.session.userId) {
    return next();
  } else {
    var err = new Error('You must be logged in to view this page.');
    err.status = 401;
    return next(err);
  }
}

Using the middleware in a route

router.get('/secret', mid.requiresLogin, function(req, res, next) {
  return res.render('secret', { title: 'Top secret. Stay out!' });
});

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    Remember, we created an index.js file in the middleware directory. 0:00
    I'll add a new function called requiresLogin here. 0:00
    I'll use a conditional statement to check for a session and 0:11
    a userId on that session. 0:16
    And if they're both there, then the user is logged in. 0:19
    I'll exit the function by calling the next piece of middleware. 0:22
    If they aren't logged in, we'll create an error that lets 0:26

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