Parse.User.current not working? Do i use something else?

[farhan-syed]

here is what im doing, the app.post works for login, but when it goes to app.get, Parse.User.current is null

app.post('/login', function(req, res) {
  Parse.User.logIn(req.body.username, req.body.password, {
  success: function(user) {
    // Do stuff after successful login.
    console.log('user: ' + user);
    res.redirect('/home');
  },
  error: function(user, error) {
    // The login failed. Check error to see why.
    console.log('error login');
    res.redirect('/login');
  }
});

});


app.get('/home',function(req, res){

if (Parse.User.current()) {
      // No need to fetch the current user for querying Note objects.
  var currentUser = Parse.User.current();
  var sessionToken = currentUser.get('sessionToken');

  console.log(sessionToken);
    }
});

[drew-gross]

You'll need to switch to using an explicit session token in your queries if you make to make queries in cloud code as a specific user. See the migration guide: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Parse-Server/wiki/Compatibility-with-Hosted-Parse#Cloud-Code

[farhan-syed]

Not trying to do cloud code, just logging in on a website

[drew-gross]

This repo is for issues in Parse Server, not for help building your app. That said, you can't use current user in a node environment. Imagine what would happen when one person hits the login endpoint, then then a second one hit the login endpoint, then the first one hit the home endpoint. Current user would still be set to the second user. This is why current user doesn't exist in node.

What you should do instead is store a session token on the client, and use that session token in your requests.

[farhan-syed]

is there some guide on this? i do have parse-express-cookie-sesion