Mongoose - validate email syntax

Question

I have a mongoose schema for users (UserSchema) and I'd like to authenticate whether the email has the right syntax. The validation that I am currently using is as follows:

UserSchema.path('email').validate(function (email) {

  return email.length

}, 'The e-mail field cannot be empty.')

However, the above command only checks if the field is empty or not, and not for the syntax.

Does something previously exist that I could re-use or would I have to come up with my method and call that inside the validate function?

Answer 1

You can simply use a regex. 

UserSchema.path('email').validate(function (email) {

   var emailRegex12321 = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;

   return emailRegex12321.test(email.text); // Assuming email has a text attribute

}, 'The e-mail field cannot be empty.')