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Password field validation

To add validation constraints on the actual password string selected by the end user, we will need to add custom validation logic and associate it with the hashed_password field in the schema.

mern-skeleton/server/models/user.model.js:

UserSchema.path('hashed_password').validate(function(v) {  if (this._password && this._password.length < 6) {    this.invalidate('password', 'Password must be at least 6 characters.')  }  if (this.isNew && !this._password) {    this.invalidate('password', 'Password is required')  }}, null)

To ensure that a password value is indeed provided, and has a length of at least six characters when a new user is created or existing password is updated, custom validation is added to check the password ...