How to allow my user to reset their password on Cognito User Pools?

Question

So in my app I obviously want to provide the means for users to reset their passwords. The issue I\'m having though is that the new documentation for User Pools is pretty ambigu

Answer 1

I had this same issue. Was able to work through it by using confirmPassword() in the following way.

//validation of input from form
req.checkBody('email', 'Username is required').notEmpty();
req.checkBody('password', 'Password is required').notEmpty();
req.checkBody('confirmationcode', 'Confirmation Code is required').notEmpty();


var confirmationCode = req.body.confirmationcode;
var password = req.body.password;
var userPool = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUserPool(poolData);


var userData = {
    Username: req.body.email,
    Pool: userPool
};
var cognitoUser = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUser(userData);

cognitoUser.confirmPassword(confirmationCode, password, {
    onFailure(err) {
        console.log(err);
    },
    onSuccess() {
        console.log("Success");
    },
});