added server route for authentication

react/containers/NavBar/view.jsx

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import React from 'react';
-import { getUserCookies, clearUserCookies } from 'utils/cookies';
+import { clearUserCookies } from 'utils/cookies';
+import { authenticateUser } from 'utils/auth';
 import Logo from 'components/Logo';
 import NavBarChannelDropdown from 'components/NavBarChannelDropdown';
 
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@ class NavBar extends React.Component {
   constructor (props) {
     super(props);
     this.checkForLoggedInUser = this.checkForLoggedInUser.bind(this);
+    this.logoutUser = this.logoutUser.bind(this);
     this.handleSelection = this.handleSelection.bind(this);
   }
   componentDidMount () {
@@ -18,23 +20,29 @@ class NavBar extends React.Component {
   }
   checkForLoggedInUser () {
     // check for whether a channel is already logged in
-    let channelName, channelShortId, channelLongId;
+    authenticateUser()
-    ({ channelName, channelShortId, channelLongId } = getUserCookies());
+      .then(({success, message}) => {
-    console.log(`cookies found for channel: ${channelName} ${channelShortId} ${channelLongId}`);
+        if (success) {
-    if (channelName) {
+          this.props.onChannelLogin(message.channelName, message.shortChannelId, message.channelClaimId);
-      this.props.onChannelLogin(channelName, channelShortId, channelLongId);
+        } else {
+          console.log('user was not logged in');
         }
+      })
+      .catch(error => {
+        console.log('authenticate user errored:', error);
+      });
+  }
+  logoutUser () {
+    // send logout request to server
+    window.location.href = '/logout'; // NOTE: replace with a call to the server
   }
   handleSelection (event) {
-    console.log('handling selection', event)
+    console.log('handling selection', event);
     const value = event.target.selectedOptions[0].value;
     console.log('value', value);
     switch (value) {
       case LOGOUT:
-        // remove session cookies
+        this.logoutUser();
-        clearUserCookies();
-        // send logout request to server
-        window.location.href = '/logout';
         break;
       case VIEW:
         // redirect to channel page

react/utils/auth.js

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import {makeGetRequest} from 'utils/xhr';
+
+module.exports = {
+  authenticateUser () {
+    // send authentication request to server
+    // receive the user info back
+    return makeGetRequest('/user');
+  },
+};

routes/auth-routes.js

@@ -23,4 +23,12 @@ module.exports = (app) => {
       shortChannelId: req.user.shortChannelId,
     });
   });
+  // see if user is authenticated, and return credentials if so
+  app.get('/user', (req, res) => {
+    if (req.user) {
+      res.status(200).json({success: true, message: req.user});
+    } else {
+      res.status(200).json({success: false, message: 'user is not logged in'});
+    }
+  });
 };