Send Email

Now that we are prompting the user for their email address, and have the strategy configured, the next step is to send the user an email when they click "Sign in with Email."

Open 'routes/auth.js', add this route at line 56, below the '/login' route:

router.post('/login/email', passport.authenticate('magiclink', {
  action: 'requestToken',
  failureRedirect: '/login'
}), function(req, res, next) {
  res.redirect('/login/email/check');
});

This route will process the form on the login page and send an email to the user.

Continuing within 'routes/auth.js', add this route at line 63, below the newly added '/login/email' route:

router.get('/login/email/check', function(req, res, next) {
  res.render('login/email/check');
});

This route will render a page instructing the user to check their email and click the link.

Next, we will verify the email when the user clicks that link.