I want to redirect user from one page to another page in Node.js (plain node.js)
Real life scenario: Afer signup (example.com/sigup), after successful signup I want
A simpler way :
res.redirect(307, '/login');
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Simplest way to do it is by using a 302 status code and a location field with the target URL.
The HTTP response status code 302 Found is a common way of performing a redirection.
An HTTP response with this status code will additionally provide a URL in the Location header field. The User Agent (e.g. a web browser) is invited by a response with this code to make a second, otherwise identical, request, to the new URL specified in the Location field. The HTTP/1.0 specification (RFC 1945) defines this code, and gives it the description phrase "Moved Temporarily".
Source: Wikipedia
res.statusCode = 302;
res.setHeader("Location", '/login');
res.end();
It's simple:
if (signUpSuccessful(request, response)) {
response.statusCode = 302;
response.setHeader("Location", "/login");
response.end();
}
This will redirect your user to the /login
URL with an 302 Found
status and finish the response. Be sure that you haven't called response.write()
before, otherwise an exception will be thrown.