I am working on a project for my summer training and I was asked to create a login page using Node.js
however, after installing express-validator
and entered the codes I suppose to in the app.js
file it prints out an error each time I run the app.js
or the www
in the bin file telling me "validator
is not a function".
And most importantly, I am using WebStorm as my IDE on Windows.
This is the error it prints out;
app.use(validator());
^
TypeError: validator is not a function
Here is the code from the app.js
file;
var express = require('express');
var path = require('path');
var favicon = require('serve-favicon');
var logger = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var validator = require('validator');
var session = require('session');
var routes = require('./routes/index');
var users = require('./routes/users');
var app = express();
// view engine setup
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
// uncomment after placing your favicon in /public
//app.use(favicon(path.join(__dirname, 'public', 'favicon.ico')));
app.use(logger('dev'));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(validator());
app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
app.use(session({secret:'max', saveUninitialize: false, resave: false}));
app.use('/', routes);
app.use('/users', users);
// catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
var err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// error handlers
// development error handler
// will print stacktrace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// production error handler
// no stacktraces leaked to user
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
module.exports = app;