validate user by express-validator

Question

I am kind of new to the nodeJs and I am trying to check if user's email already exists in the database, but seems like I am doing something wrong, it always tell me that "Email already exists" I tried a few different ways but none of them work. I hope someone here will be able to help me figure this out. thank you.

router.post('/register', function (req, res) {
var name = req.body.name;
var email = req.body.email;
req.checkBody('name', 'Name is required').notEmpty();
req.checkBody('email', 'Email is required').notEmpty();

req.checkBody('email', 'Email already exists').custom(email => {
    return User.getUserByEmail(email, function(user) {
        if (user) {
            throw new Error('this email is already in use');
        }
    })
});


// User.getUserByEmail(email, function (err, user) {
//
//     if(!isEmpty(user)){
//         console.log(user);
//         MyEmitter.emit('isUser', true);
//         var empty = '';
//         req.checkBody('empty', 'Username/Email is already taken').isEmpty();
//     }
// });
/** CKECK IF USER EXISTS  NEEDS TO BE WORKED ON */

var errors = req.validationErrors();

if (errors) {
    res.render('register', {
        errors: errors
    });
}else {
    var newUser = new User({
        name: name,
        email: email,
        username: username,
        password: password
    });
    User.createUser(newUser, function (err, user) {
        if (err) throw err;
    });

    req.flash('success_msg', 'Registration successful, please log in');
    res.redirect('/users/login');
}
 });

/** get user by email **/
module.exports.getUserByEmail = function(email, callback){
var query = {email: email};
User.findOne(query, callback);
}

Answer 1

Check this one:

req.checkBody('email', 'Email already exists').custom(email => {
   User.findOne({email: email}).exec(function(user) {
       if (!user) {
           return true;
       }
       else{
           return false;
       }
    })
});