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How to access app.locals variable in handlebars

app.js
var debug = require('debug');
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
javvar mongoose = require('mongoose');
var session = require('express-session');
var db = require('./dbconn');
db.on('error', console.error.bind(console, 'connection error:'));
db.once('open', function() {
console.log('we are connected!');
});
var index = require('./routes/index');
var users =
require('./routes/users');
var signup = require('./routes/signup');
var login = require('./routes/login');
var adreqform =
require('./routes/adreqform') var dashboard =
require('./routes/dashboard')
var app = express();
// view engine setup app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.engine('hbs', exphbs({
extname: '.hbs',
defaultLayout: 'layout'
}));
app.set('view engine', 'hbs');
// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(__dirname + '/public/favicon.ico'));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
extended: false
}));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname,
'public')));
app.use(session({
secret: 'gh jewellery',
resave: true,
saveUninitialized: false
}));
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
app.locals.currentUser = req.session.user;
next();
});
app.use('/', index);
app.use('/users', users);
app.use('/dashboard',
dashboard);
app.use('/signup', signup);
app.use('/login', login);
app.use('/adreqform', adreqform);
// catch 404 and forward to error handler app.use(function (req, res,
next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// error handlers
// development error handler // will print stacktrace if
(app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler // no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
module.exports = app;
var server = app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
debug('Express server listening on port ' + server.address().port);
});
Notice I assign app.locals.currentUser = req.session.user; above and req.session.user gets set when my route /login is hit and here is it's code.
login.js
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var User = require('../models/user.model.js');
var app = require('../app');
/* GET signup page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
res.render('login');
});
router.post('/', function(req, res, next) {
User.findOne({
email: req.body.email
}, function(err, user) {
var logged = false;
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else if (!user) {
res.render('login', {
errnoacc: 'User does not exist! Please register.'
})
} else if (user && req.body.password == user.password) {
req.session.user = user;
res.render('dashboard');
} else {
res.render('login', {
errpass: 'Password does not match. Please try again!'
});
}
});
next();
});
module.exports = router;
In the above code when POST is hit, I assign req.session.user = user; if all is good I render the dashboard view, there are a layout.hbs which has navbar where I want to use app.locals.currentUser to show currentUser object.
Using in my layouts.hbs {{currentUser.username}} doesn't work.
I am new to expressjs development so I know I am missing something.

app.locals holds settings for all application, if you app gets more than one user it will overwrite the information.
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
app.locals.currentUser = req.session.user;
next();
});
You may use res.locals:
app.use(function(req, res, next){
res.locals.user = req.user;
res.locals.authenticated = ! req.user.anonymous;
next();
});
Then you can access in handlebar like:
p #{user.userName}

router.get function not being called

I am using passport.js for a basic log in/log out system. For some reason, the router.get('/signout', function(req, res)) is not being called when I run http://localhost:3000/auth/signout on Advanced rest client. Instead I am getting a Internal Server Error: 500. Login works just fine, but signout does not. Here is my app.js and authenticate.js:
App.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var passport = require('passport');
var session = require('express-session');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
//Initialize models
require('./models/models.js');
var api = require('./routes/api');
var authenticate = require('./routes/authenticate')(passport);
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
//connect to mongodb
mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/chirp-test");
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(session({
secret: 'super duper secret'
}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session()); //This creates a unique has for our session
//Initialize Passport
var initPassport = require('./passport-init');
initPassport(passport);
app.use('/auth', authenticate);
app.use('/api', api);
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// error handler
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
// set locals, only providing error in development
res.locals.message = err.message;
res.locals.error = req.app.get('env') === 'development' ? err : {};
// render the error page
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error');
});
module.exports = app;
Authenticate.js
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
module.exports = function(passport){
//sends successful login state back to angular
router.post('/success', function(req, res){
console.log('successful');
res.send({state: 'success', user: req.user ? req.user : null});
});
//sends failure login state back to angular
router.get('/failure', function(req, res){
res.send({state: 'failure', user: null, message: "Invalid username or password"});
});
//log in
router.post('/login', passport.authenticate('login', { failureRedirect: '/auth/failure' }),
function(req, res) {
//res.redirect('/auth/success');
res.send({state: 'success', user: req.user ? req.user : null});
});
//sign up
router.post('/signup', passport.authenticate('signup', {
successRedirect: '/auth/success',
failureRedirect: '/auth/failure'
}));
//log out
router.get('/signout', function(req, res) {
console.log('Signing out...');
req.logout();
res.redirect('/');
});
return router;
}

You have registered nothing under "/". So when "auth/logout" call redirect to redirect("/"), I guess client is redirected but goes into your "error handler" which sends a 500 error...

NodeJS server crash after save data to mongoDB

I wrote a script which save an object to a MongoDB database using mongoose. The object is correctly save to the database, but the server crashes right after, throwing me the following error message: catch(err) { process.nextTick(function() { throw err}); }
Here's a part of my code:
users.js
var User = require('../models/user');
router.post('/register', function(req, res, next) {
[...]
// checks for errors
var errors = req.validationErrors();
if (errors) {
res.render('register', {
errors: errors,
[...]
})
} else {
var newUser = new User({
[...]
});
// Create user
User.createUser(newUser, function(err, user) {
if (error) {
throw err;
};
console.log(user);
});
[...]
}
});
module.exports = router;
user.js
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/nodeauth');
// User Schema
var UserSchema = mongoose.Schema({
[...]
});
var User = module.exports = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);
module.exports.createUser = function(newUser, callback) {
newUser.save(callback);
}
apps.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var session = require('express-session');
var passport = require('passport');
var localStrategy = require('passport-local').Strategy;
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var multer = require('multer');
var flash = require('connect-flash');
var mongo = require('mongodb');
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var db = mongoose.connection;
var expressValidator = require('express-validator');
var routes = require('./routes/index');
var users = require('./routes/users');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
// handle file uploads
app.use(multer({dest:'./uploads'}).single('singleInputFileName'));
// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
// handle express session
app.use(session({
secret: 'secret',
saveUninitialized: true,
resave: true
}));
// passport
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
// validator
app.use(expressValidator({
errorFormatter: function(param, msg, value) {
var namespace = param.split('.')
, root = namespace.shift()
, formParam = root;
while(namespace.length) {
formParam += '[' + namespace.shift() + ']';
}
return {
param : formParam,
msg : msg,
value : value
};
}
}));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
// connect flash
app.use(flash());
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
res.locals.messages = require('express-messages')(req, res);
next();
});
app.use('/', routes);
app.use('/users', users);
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// error handlers
// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;

You shouldn't throw error you should return it in handler to let clients know if there is a database error creating the user. Only throw when caller can catch error, async code cannot be caught easily. Promises enable throwing errors but not callbacks.

Why is my server returning error 500 while trying to set a cookie?

I have an express v4 server with a route called admin. When the user post a password to the admin route, I want to respond by setting a cookie on the user's browser and sending a small json. For some reason, the server keeps returning error 500 when trying to respond. I'm assuming that this is something to do with the cookie as I can do "res.send()" without any problem. I'm new to express/nodejs so any help is appreciated.
admin.js
var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
/* POST HANDLER */
router.post('/', function(req, res) {
var on = {'admin' : "on"};
res.cookie(cookie , 'cookie_on').send(on);
});
module.exports = router;
app.js
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var routes = require('./routes/index');
var admin = require('./routes/admin');
var blogposts = require('./routes/blogposts');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use('/', routes);
app.use('/admin', admin);
app.use('/blogposts', blogposts);
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// error handlers
// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;

Dumb mistake: Cookie should have been 'cookie'...

Extremely Long TTFB on localhost (Node/Express)

I'm experiencing extremely long TTFB on my localhost node/express server.
On average each request's(including static resource) TTFB is around 1s, occasionally up to 7s(I guess this is NOT normal)
What could cause this long TTFB and how to improve?
Could it be my fault for configing express wrong?
Here is my app.js:
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var methodOverride = require('method-override');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var morgan = require('morgan')
//Router files
var all = require('./api/all');
var admin = require('./api/admin');
var student = require('./api/student');
var teacher = require('./api/teacher');
var course = require('./api/course');
var forum = require('./api/forum');
var group = require('./api/group');
var board = require('./api/board');
// App Setup
var app = express();
// View engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(morgan(':remote-addr [:date[clf]] :user :method :url :status :response-time ms',{
skip: function (req, res) {
//var noUser = (req.AV.user === undefined);
//return noUser;
return true;
}
}));
app.use(favicon(__dirname + '/public/favicon.ico'));
// Load Cloud Code
//app.use(cloud);
//Express Middleware
app.use(methodOverride('_method'))
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(express.static(__dirname+'/public'));
//The Route
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.send('./public/index.html');
});
//Routers
app.use('/api',all);
app.use('/api/admin',admin);
app.use('/api/student',student);
app.use('/api/teacher',teacher);
app.use('/api/course',course);
app.use('/api/forum',forum);
app.use('/api/group',group);
app.use('/api/board',board);
//404 Handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
//console.log("NOT FOUND: "+req.url);
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
res.render('notfound.jade');
//next(err);
});
// error handlers for different env
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
console.log("dev env");
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
if(res.status===500){
console.log(err);
//console.log(err.stack.split("\n"));
}
res.send({
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
console.log(err.message);
res.send({
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;
ps:I'm using node 4.0.0 and latest chrome