How to allow my user to reset their password on Cognito User Pools?

Question

So in my app I obviously want to provide the means for users to reset their passwords. The issue I\'m having though is that the new documentation for User Pools is pretty ambigu

Answer 1

Resetting the password with forgot password flow has two steps:

1. Start the process by requesting for a verification code from the service. A code will be delivered to the user's phone/email.
2. Set the new password using the delivered verification code.

Use these two functions to perform the above steps and reset the password:

1. cognitoUser.forgotPassword(): This will start the forgot password process flow. The service generates a verification code and sends it to the user. The "data", returned through callback.inputVerificationCode(data), indicates where the verification code was sent.

2. cognitoUser.confirmPassword(): Use the delivered verification code with this function to set a new password.