How to protect routes in express.js? - node.js

Question

For example, in Meteor, there's something like
Router.plugin('ensureSignedIn');
Router.plugin('ensureSignedIn', {
except: ['home', 'atSignIn', 'atSignUp', 'atForgotPassword']
});
So unsigned user cannot access other routes except above four.
How to do this in express.js? I'm using passport.js also.

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with Meteor, but you can do something like the following, assuming you want to make pages available to only authenticated users (passport).
function ensureAuthenticated(req, res, next) {
if (req.isAuthenticated())
return next();
else
// Return error content: res.jsonp(...) or redirect: res.redirect('/login')
}
app.get('/account', ensureAuthenticated, function(req, res) {
// Do something with user via req.user
});
The ensureAuthenticated function is just an example, you can define your own function. Calling next() continues the request chain.

Answer 2

I should use middleware for protect my routes, even to protect certain verbs in the same route:
for example: in my endpoint/route.js
// the require sentences are omitted
const express = require('express');
const { /*controllerFunctions*/ } = require('./controller');
const {routeGuard} = require('/*must create a route guard*/');
const router = express.Router();
router.route('')
.get(getAllResources)
;
router.route('/:id') //
.get(validateParam,getOneResource);
router.use(routeGuard);
router.route('/:id')
.post(validateParam,validateBody,postResource)
.patch(validateParam,validateBody,patchProblemById)
.delete(validateParam,deleteResource)
;
module.exports = router;
and my routeGuard file should be like this:
const { promisify } = require('util');
const jwt = require("jsonwebtoken");
const AppError = require('./appError');
const {User} = require('./../endpoints/users/model');
const wrapper = require('./try-wrapper');//try catch wrapper
module.exports.routeGuard = wrapper(async function (req, res, next){
// the err message is the same on purpose
const notAllowed = new AppError('Unauthorized: Invalid or Nonexistent credentials',401);
let token = null;
if (req.headers.authorization && req.headers.authorization.startsWith('Bearer')){
token = req.headers.authorization.split(' ')[1];
}
if (!token) return next(notAllowed );
const payload = await promisify(jwt.verify)(token,process.env.KEY);
const user = await User.findById(payload.id);
if (!user) return next( notAllowed);
if ( ! user.hasSamePasswordSince(payload.iat) )return next( notAllowed );
req.user = user; // further use...
next();
});