I am not able to use connect-flash package for res.render. My main aim is to display a flash message on rendering of a view.
I am able to make it work with a res.redirect("route") but not with the res.render("view") code. Is it by design ?
My code is shown as below
if(err){
// Apparently res.render("register") didn't work with flash. But res.redirect("/register") worked.
req.flash("error", err.message); // Error occurs when the user is taken, password is empty etc.
return res.redirect("/register"); // Short circut everything. Else the code below this would run as well and that would throw an error
}
This is the correct syntax for using req.flash with res.render:
req.flash('error', yourErrString);
res.render("register.ejs", {
message: req.flash('error')
});