Advanced Node and Express - Serialization of a User Object

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

test are failing try to delete the nodes and install again but following the step from test 4 they keep failing

###Your project link(s)

solution: https://3000-freecodecam-boilerplate-xuhf289jwg6.ws-us118.gitpod.io

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Challenge Information:

Advanced Node and Express - Serialization of a User Object

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How are you setting this boilerplate up in gitpod? The issue with this is the links timing out in 30 mins.

Submit your page when you think you’ve got it right. If you’re running into errors, you can check out the project completed up to this point.

3

Post a repo or a Gitpod snapshot as outlined on the initial challenge page.

What do you mean by nodes? Are you talking about the dependencies?

4

I delete the node_modules. I can post the link again https://3000-freecodecam-boilerplate-xuhf289jwg6.ws-us118.gitpod.io.
and this is the code in the server.js folder

'use strict';
require('dotenv').config();
const express = require('express');
const myDB = require('./connection');
const fccTesting = require('./freeCodeCamp/fcctesting.js');
const session = require('express-session');
const passport = require('passport');
const { ObjectID } = require('mongodb');

const app = express();

app.set('view engine', 'pug');
app.set('views', './views/pug');

app.use(session({
  secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET,
  resave: true,
  saveUninitialized: true,
  cookie: { secure: false }
}));

app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());

fccTesting(app); // For fCC testing purposes
app.use('/public', express.static(process.cwd() + '/public'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

app.route('/').get((req, res) => {
  res.render('index', { title: 'Hello', message: 'Please log in' });
});

passport.serializeUser((user, done) => {
  done(null, user._id);
});

passport.deserializeUser((id, done) => {
 // myDataBase.findOne({ _id: new ObjectID(id) }, (err, doc) => {
    done(null, null);
  //});
});

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`Listening on port ${PORT}`);
});
5

It is working now after restarting the server

6

The boilerplate comes with two scripts, dev and start, dev uses nodemon and will auto restart when making file changes and saving, start will not.

You could add the --watch flag to the start script.

package.json

"scripts": {
  "start": "node --watch server.js",
  "dev": "nodemon server.js"
},
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