Coding NodeJS APIs (pt 5) - Learn how to build APIs with NodeJS & AWS

I'm going to demonstrate how you can use AWS Cognito, an authentication platform from AWS, to prevent unauthorized access to certain routes of a Node API. We're going to create a custom middleware to be used in your routes that validates with Cognito before performing any actions.

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[JamesQQuick]

Very cool. I don't know much about the incognito space!

[jessefinnegan]

If in the case I want a validator that checks if someone is an admin, do I have to write a separate validator method, or can I somehow pass in a value? For example can I do something like: .get([validateAuth("admin")], async(req, res) => { ... }