Express routes not working as they should

Question

I have a standard expressroute for this login. Even if req.body.password is incorrect I get redirected to '/login'

router.post('/student/login', (req, res) => {
  if (req.body.password = 'password') {
    return res.status(200).redirect('/login')
  } else {
    return res.status(401).redirect('/landingpage')
  }
})

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Change the = to === in line two as you are assigning a value with just = and are comparing value with ===

 router.post('/student/login', (req, res) => { if (req.body.password === 'password') { return res.status(200).redirect('/login') } else { return res.status(401).redirect('/landingpage') } })