How To Make Express Routes Require Authentication By Default?

I've seen many examples of how to add an authentication middleware to certain routes that need to be restricted to logged-in users (implying that the default is to allow anyone to

Solution 1:

I would use: https://github.com/expressjs/session once the user is authenticated then you can check for valid sessions in your controller that handles the route of express.

Updated Answer

This is how I would do the control user logged

/**
 * Module dependencies
 */var express = require('express'),
  http = require('http'),
  session = require('express-session'),
  app = module.exports = express();

/**
 * Configuration
 */// all environments
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
app.set('trust proxy', 1);
app.use(session({
  secret: 'keyboard cat',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: true,
  cookie: {
    secure: true
  }
}));


functioncheckUserLoggedIn(req, res, next) {
  return req.session;
}
/**
 * Routes to control by default is logged in with a regular expression
 */
app.get('/user/:use_id/*', function (req, res, next) {
  if (checkUserLoggedIn(req)) {
    console.log('User logged');
    next();
  } else {
    console.log('error');
  }
});
/**
 * User Home
 */
app.get('/user/:use_id/home/', function (req, res, next) {
  if (checkUserLoggedIn(req)) {
    console.log('User logged goes to home');
    next();
  } else {
    console.log('error');
  }
});


/**
 * Home for user that is actually logged
 */
app.get('/guest/dashboard', function (req, res, next) {
  console.log('This is guest dashboard');
});

/**
 * Home for user that is actually logged
 */
app.get('/guest/home', function (req, res, next) {
  console.log('This is guest home');
});


/**
 * Start Server
 */
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function () {
  console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});

Then run

$ node app.js

Go to browser and access http://localhost:3000/home

The regular expression you defined in to control '/*' is getting all the defaults routing and then is going to the next route that matches, thats /home.

This is one way to do it, may be there is a better and more clear way to fit the issue. In the regular expression you control what you mean with default routes and for each case particular.