Login with User or Email

sultan.h 0
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I'm trying to let the user login using the username or email, I didn't know how to implement it, now I have the user logging in using it's email.

auth.js:

//LOGIN
router.post("/login", async (req, res) => {
    try {
      const user = await User.findOne({ email: req.body.email });
      !user && res.status(400).json("Wrong credentials!");
  
      const validated = await bcrypt.compare(req.body.password, user.password);
      !validated && res.status(400).json("Wrong credentials!");
  
      const { password, ...others } = user._doc;
      return res.status(200).json(others);
    } catch (err) {
      return res.status(500).json(err);
    }
  });

How can I let the user login using email or username with one input?

reactjs node.js
3 Answers

You can identify whether it is email or userame.

const isEmail=/^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\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,}))$/.test(req.body.identifier)

Then you can use query accordingly.

const user = await User.findOne(
    isEmail ? ({ email: req.body.identifier }) : ({username: req.body.identifier})
);

This will make your query simpler and faster.

Avkash0

You can try to get a user from both email and username. If its from the same input and you can't make the difference from your client app you can do something like that.

const user =
   (await User.findOne({ email: req.body.loginInput })) ||
   (await User.findOne({ username: req.body.loginInput }))

But that would do 2 db queries for each user that want to sign in with username.

The best would be to use a reggex on your client app that recognize if its an email and then you could have 2 differents fields on you POST data.

lafusew0

It seems you're using Sequelize to query your database.

You can use the where clause and provide an Op.or to filter by email or username.

const { Op } = require("sequelize");

// Query
const user = await User.findOne({
  where: {
    [Op.or]: [
      {
        email: {
          [Op.like]: req.body.email,
        },
      },
      {
        username: {
          [Op.like]: req.body.username,
        },
      },
    ],
  },
})
Alex Ruheni0
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