findone.ts

User.findOne({
    name: req.body.name
  }, function(err, user) {

    if (err) throw err;

    if (!user) {
      res.json({ success: false, message: 'Authentication failed. User not found.' });
    } else if (user) {

      // check if password matches
      if (user.password != req.body.password) {
        res.json({ success: false, message: 'Authentication failed. Wrong password.' });
      } else {

        // if user is found and password is right
        // create a token with only our given payload
    // we don't want to pass in the entire user since that has the password
    const payload = {
      admin: user.admin 
    };
        var token = jwt.sign(payload, app.get('superSecret'), {
          expiresInMinutes: 1440 // expires in 24 hours
        });

        // return the information including token as JSON
        res.json({
          success: true,
          message: 'Enjoy your token!',
          token: token
        });
      }   

    }

  });