Bcrypt error: illegal arguments String unidentified

Question

here is my complete code

var express = require(\'express\'),
    app = express(),
    mongoose = require(\'mongoose\'),
    bodyParser = require(\'body-parse         


        

Answer 1

In your User Schema, you are setting select to false for the password field. This means that anytime you look for a user in the schema as you're trying to do in the login request, you won't get the value of the password field or any other field that has select false defined in the schema.

What you need to do is to specify you need the password when the user is found:

app.post('/login', function(req, res){
  userModel.findOne({username: req.body.username}, 'password', function(err, user){
   // continue
}

This will return only the _id and the password from the DB. If you want to return other fields, you'd have to add them in:

app.post('/login', function(req, res){
  userModel.findOne({username: req.body.username}, 'password firstName lastName email', function(err, user){
   // continue
}