Node Auth Tutorial (JWT) #17 - Checking the Current User

[@Dinesh-ql1ok]

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Thank you so much Dinesh :). I appreciate it.

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How could people be this generous, I took your ReactJs crash course and boom building new project. Thanks a million.

[@ShashotoANur]

No doubt this is the best node auth tutorial in the world.

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Thank you very much for what you have done. I watch your videos with pleasure.

[@dfcw]

Thank you so much, you're the first guy I check if I need to learn anything!

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Another great series! Thanks for all your efforts!

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I thought my bell is broken or my account was hacked but it was Shaun who decided to like all my comments at once xD ty for this series :)

[@NetNinja]

Haha, I was taking a couple of hours out to try and reply to & like comments :)

[@harshsachala21]

Well done, i am coding along side as well thank you so much for all your efforts, i am gonna add few tweaks after this series is done!

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Best tutorial i ever seen. i watched many many videos finally found good one.

[@Asimz]

Quality instruction as always!

[@kelp-chip]

Thank you so much, these tutorials are awesome!!! 💖I Was able to tweak all these auth steps to work with a React frontend. The only thing that didn't seem to work in React (for me) was the res.local bit, but I was able to get it working by changing this middleware to a route and sending back the user info that way. All that + useEffect has been working for me for displaying current user info. Hopefully that made sense and could potentially help someone else trying to use React.

[@nnevid]

Awesome tutorial! thanks so much, I have a question for all you guys, how did you automatically import the User model in this file? I see the "Auto import from : /models/etc" window at 3:19, but is there a plugin for that, my vscode didn't propose that, i had to import it with the require...thanks :)

[@akn9699]

Oh Lord Shaun ! Bless us all with your power of divine invisibility..............

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you sure have been sent by some angel to look after us (mere humans)

[@mrabodo7a]

amazing content! best on the web!

[@NetNinja]

Wow, thanks!

[@abe10]

How many more vids to come on this series Shaun? I was hoping to see all of them together 😅

[@NetNinja]

Only 1 more now :)

[@ayoubnachat5920]

you helped me a lot thank you so much master

[@neznami_clovek]

Hey Shaun, I love your videos! I just wanted to ask, why you used "app.get('*', checkUser)" insed of "app.use(checkUser)". Is there a reason, or is it the same?

[@NetNinja]

Hey, app.use will fire the middleware on all types of requests - POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE, etc. I ddn't want this - I only wanted to fire the check auth middleware on GET requests for pages.

[@mahmoudtareq5782]

the first thing i want to do is to thank you for all this beautiful courses, really i love your way of teaching us the second thing i want to ask is what is the best way when receiving the token. each time if i want the username should i store it in the browser when i login or with each request send it back with the rest of data i need?

[@ashG1234]

Hi how can we use this JWT token in a cookie in a Flutter mobile app? Do we need to use local-storage instead?

[@bensonyeboah297]

Awwwww thanks so much ninja💪

[@ibrahimkholil6262]

Hei Shaun! It would be great if you can make a series of next.js. Wating for it for a long time. Please make a series on it soon.

[@NetNinja]

I really want to get around to doing it soon too :)

[@VarunSharma-xc9fl]

How can I implement and use this middleware sending data in REACT native?

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[@NetNinja]

Yes :) Manchester, England to be precise! thanks for your kind words.

[@wordspace121]

I have set res.locals.currentUser = null . But after logout it is showing currentUser as undefined. Anyone with the solution?

[@mahmoudfathy7353]

I did the same but I'm facing a problem I get an error that user is not defined

[@alamir411]

This was a long way to reach that point

[@utkarshgaming8153]

very good playlist .I used express as a backend and Vue as a frontend.

[@g.bagiryan]

Can anyone help? When I log out I can still access the users page by pressing "back" in the browser

[@JJ-re5fy]

In his checkUser function, I don't understand how in line 35 he can call let user = await User.findById(decoded.token); Where is User defined?

[@PowerWolf_UA]

3:24 User is defined in the top "const User = require('../models/user')"

[@luisaugsburger]

I had an error beacuse of this. I fixed importing at the top "const User = require('../models/User');"

[@titofrezer6201]

Thank you shaun

[@NetNinja]

No probs Tito!

[@denizhbeyaz]

Can you make a MERN version of this, master?

[@ShashotoANur]

Net ninja has the best react tutorial. Check it out. Then replace the frontend of this app with react.

[@biswajitbhunia3423]

how many videos are left to complete the series??

[@silvenleaf8170]

One more!! Total 18

[@thomasl3205]

Thank you~😀

[@ayushkwal]

I stuck on a problem. Can anybody please help me! why I am getting "findById is not a function" error

[@nielfollero5]

Ha! I got the same error on the previous episodes. Upon checking stackoverflow that doesn't really addressed that problem, I noticed a code snippet that contains, I think ES5 function, that doesn't use arrow function(ES6). Then I checked my code if I was using ES5 function and I saw I was not. Then I remembered master Shawn mentioned that we should use the ES5 function in order to access the 'this' inside our statics function so yeah, use ES5 function instead of arrow function.

[@royangagas2519]

one episode again this series is end huhuhuhuhu T-T

[@hadrienjaubert6273]

Thank you so much for this awesome series ! However after coding the checkUser function I get an errror : 'TypeError: Cannot read property 'jwt' of undefined '. Could you help me please ?

[@zael7848]

Same here!

[@michealdaniel9655]

For anyone who is curious, I had the same problem described above. I learned that I mispelled "req.cookies.jwt" as "req.cookie.jwt." Notice the missing 's' after "cookie." Also, I did not import my User model in the top of my authMiddleware.js file. After fixing these issues, my project worked beautifully lol

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Salamat..,

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Can you make tut about .NET Core? If you're familiar with

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Salamat..,