express status code not updating, getting json message update-CodePudding

I am not getting status message as 500 eventhough I set. always getting status message as 200. how to set the status as 500?

here is my code : "express": "4.17.2",

    router.post('/register', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
      const { password, email } = req.body;
      try {
        const isUserExist = await UserModel.findOne({ email: email });
        if (isUserExist) {
          //status not set.
          return res.json({ message: 'User already exist', success: false }).status(500);
        }
        const hashPassword = bcrypt.hashSync(password, 10);
        req.body.password = hashPassword;
        const newUser = new UserModel(req.body);
        await newUser.save();
        res.json({ message: 'user created successfully', success: true });
      } catch (error) {
        res.sendStatus(500).json({ message: 'Error creating user', success: false });
      }
    });

react axios:

when i use:

return res.status(500).json({ message: 'User already exist', success: false }); getting something went wrong

export const registerUser = createAsyncThunk('post/user', async (user: RegisterFormProps) => {
  try {
    const response = await axios.post(environment.BASE_URL   '/user/register', user);
    console.log('suc', response.data.success);
    if (response.data.success) {
      toast.success(response.data.message);
    } else {
      toast.error(response.data.message);
    }
  } catch (error) {
    const err = error as AxiosError;
    console.log('err', err);
    toast.error('something went wrong');
  }
});

CodePudding user response：

You should be using res.status instead of res.sendStatus in your code.

res.status(statusCode) just sets the status on the response. whereas res.sendStatus(statusCode) sends the response after setting the status.

for example:

res.sendStatus(500); // equivalent to res.status(500).send('Internal Server Error')

on the client side try using error.response.data in your catch block

CodePudding user response：

Try this one:

router.post('/register', async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
      const { password, email } = req.body;
      try {
        const isUserExist = await UserModel.findOne({ email: email });
        if (isUserExist) {
          //status not set.
          return res.status(500).json({ message: 'User already exist', success: false });
        }
        const hashPassword = bcrypt.hashSync(password, 10);
        req.body.password = hashPassword;
        const newUser = new UserModel(req.body);
        await newUser.save();
        res.status(201).json({ message: 'user created successfully', success: true });
      } catch (error) {
        res.status(500).json({ message: 'Error creating user', success: false });
      }
    });