Express route controller works inline but not exported - PassportJS

Question

I'm coding a login post route using passport JS. It works fine, but I'm having issues getting my exported version working.

Works

router.post('/users/login', passport.authenticate('local'), (req, res) => {
    console.log(req.user);
});

Doesn't work - Returns Cannot POST /users/login

exports.loginAuth = passport.authenticate('local'), (req, res) => {
    console.log(req.user);
}

Answer 1

OKi, one thing. on yow loginAuth where are you telling the route ? Well the problem is bcuz you of passport.authenticate('local'), that is a middleware

try this. let's say we have the routes.js and the controller.js

on the rotes.js as the name says we have them routes, so it looks like this

import {Router} from "express";
//const {Router} = require("express");
import {theEndPoint} from "./controller";
 
export default function themRoutes () {
 const api = Router()

// also dont forget to add the require them thingies required by passport and stuff
api.post("/api/login", [passport.authenticate('local')],theEndPoint);


return api;
}

and on our controller.js file we have some like

export function theEndPoint (req, res) {

....

res.sendStatus(202);
}