Feathersjs: Switching to sockets instead of REST, using Express Middleware with Sockets - reactjs

Question

So I'm following Feathersjs docs regarding authentication,
and I have a middleware /signup,
from User Management docs:
module.exports = function(app) {
return function(req, res, next) {
const body = req.body;
app.service('users').create({
email: body.email,
password: body.password
})
// Then redirect to the login page
.then(user => res.redirect('/login.html'))//this will be a redirect in my client not in the server
.catch(next);
};
};
Now in src/middleware/index.js: I have :
module.exports = function() {
const app = this;
app.post('/signup', signup(app));// how can I reimplement this with sockets
app.use(notFound());
app.use(logger(app));
app.use(handler());
};
Using REST was easy :
request.post(`${SERVER}/signup`)
.send({ email: username, password: password })
.then(data=>{console.log(`data comming from response`,data)})
.catch(error=>{console.log(`ERROR comming from response`,error)})
so the problem is that now that I'm using sockets (feathers-client) I don't know how to tell feathers client to "post" the email/pass to that /signup middleware. Is there any way to achieve this?
this is my client conf:
import feathers from 'feathers-client';
const io = require('socket.io-client');
var socket = io(SERVER);
let feathersClient =
feathers()
.configure(feathers.socketio(socket))
.configure(feathers.hooks())
.configure(feathers.authentication({
storage: window.localStorage
}));

Answer 1

You don't need the signup middleware. Just create a new user through the /users service on your client like this:
import feathers from 'feathers-client';
const io = require('socket.io-client');
var socket = io(SERVER);
let feathersClient =
feathers()
.configure(feathers.socketio(socket))
.configure(feathers.hooks())
.configure(feathers.authentication({
storage: window.localStorage
}));
feathersClient.service('users').create({
email: 'test#example.com',
password: 'testing'
});
Then you will be able to authenticate the user like this:
feathersClient.authenticate({
type: 'local',
email: 'test#example.com',
password: 'testing'
});