Integrated validators into users.js

Author: 2bit-hack

routes/api/users.js

@@ -5,13 +5,23 @@ const jwt = require("jsonwebtoken");
 
 const User = require("../../models/user");
 
+const { validatePassword, validateEmail } = require("../../validators/validators");
+
 router.post("/", async (req, res) => {
   const { name, email, password } = req.body;
 
   if (!name || !email || !password) {
     return res.status(400).send({ msg: "Please enter all fields" });
   }
 
+  if (!validateEmail(email)) {
+    return res.status(400).send({ msg: "Invalid email address format specified" });
+  }
+
+  if (!validatePassword(password)) {
+    return res.status(400).send({ msg: "Password must be at least 8 characters in length and must contain at least 1 lowercase letter, 1 uppercase letter, 1 numeric digit, and 1 special character" });
+  }
+
   const existingUser = await User.findOne({ email });
   if (existingUser) {
     res.status(400).send({ msg: "Already registered user with this email" });

validators/validators.js

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ const validatePassword = (password) => {
 };
 
 const validateEmail = (email) => {
+    // from https://emailregex.com/
+    // claims to match 99.99% of all email addresses
     const emailRegex = /^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
 
     return emailRegex.test(email);