I have created a login page using some HTML/CSS and I want the user to enter a pre-determined password, if the password is correct, they can enter the site, if not, they can't. I have looked up a lot of tutorials/sites etc. but they either use Mongodb to create unique passwords or else use Passport which is not what I'm looking for. I realise having a pre-determined password is not best practice but it suits for the scope of what I'm doing. I plan to change it once I get a basic set up going.
There is a fully functioning site when the user logs in, I just have very little experience with Node.js and not really sure how to handle the post request
This is my the form part of my HTML page (login.ejs)
<form method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" id="name">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-waing btn-lg">Login</button>
</form>
And this is my part of my server.js file
var express = require('express');
var config = require('./config');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var mandrill = require('mandrill-api/mandrill');
var app = express();
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static('dist'));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
//other stuff
app.post('/login', function (req, res) {
//user enters predetermined password
if password = "login"
go to home page
if password != "login"
go to error page
});