How to redirect to another page in Node.js

In this tutorial, we will learn about how to redirect a user from one page to another page in the Node.js app.

Note: This tutorial assumes that you are using express framework in node.js.

In node.js, we can use the res.redirect() method to redirect a user to the another page.

The res.redirect() method takes the path as an argument and redirects the user to that specified path.

In this example, we are redirecting a user from ‘/login’ page to ‘/dashboard’ page.

app.get('/login',(req,res)=>{
   res.redirect('/dashboard');
})

By default, Node.js express creates a 302 redirect.

If you want to create a permanent redirect, you need to specify a status code 301 like this.

app.get('/lab',(req,res)=>{
   res.redirect(301, '/dashboard');
})

If you are redirecting a user to a different website instead of same site, you need to pass a full url of the site like this.

app.get('/lab',(req,res)=>{
   res.redirect(301, 'https://google.com/');
})

The path relative redirects are also possible in Node.js, for example if you are on http://localhost:3000/users/sai/edit the following .. will redirect to http://localhost:3000/users/sai.

Here is an example:

res.redirect('..')