Who Am I?

After logging in, a client holds a token. On every later request it sends the token back in the Authorization header, written as the word Bearer, a space, then the token. The shop looks the token up in the tokens table to find out who is calling.

Many routes will need that answer, so the lookup goes in a helper function that any route can call. Its return type, UserInfo | undefined, says it gives back a user's id and email, or nothing. Two tools help: req.get gives undefined for a missing header, so || "" after it sets a default and keeps the value a string, and a JOIN goes from a row in one table to the row it points to in another. Both on a made-up example:

const lang = req.get("Accept-Language") || "";   // "" when the header is missing
const short = lang.replace("-US", "");           // "en-US" becomes "en"
const row = db.prepare("SELECT products.name FROM orders JOIN products ON products.id = orders.product_id WHERE orders.id = ?").get(5) as { name: string } | undefined;

GET /me answers the logged-in user's id and email. With no token, or a token the shop never gave out, it answers 401. Below, <token> and <token2> stand for the random tokens the logins answered:

POST /register  {"email": "ana@example.com", "password": "secret123"}  →  201  {"email": "ana@example.com", "id": 1}
POST /register  {"email": "ben@example.com", "password": "tea4two"}    →  201  {"email": "ben@example.com", "id": 2}
POST /login  {"email": "ana@example.com", "password": "secret123"}  →  200  {"token": "<token>"}
POST /login  {"email": "ben@example.com", "password": "tea4two"}    →  200  {"token": "<token2>"}
GET /me  Authorization: Bearer <token>   →  200  {"email": "ana@example.com", "id": 1}
GET /me  Authorization: Bearer <token2>  →  200  {"email": "ben@example.com", "id": 2}
GET /me  (no header)  →  401  {"error": "Login required"}
GET /me  Authorization: Bearer 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef  →  401  {"error": "Login required"}

Your task: write a helper currentUser(req: Request): UserInfo | undefined that reads the token from the Authorization header and returns its user's id and email, or undefined. Then add GET /me: answer { error: "Login required" } with 401 when there is no user, otherwise the user as JSON.

Assignment
Follow the Coding Tutorial to write the currentUser(req) helper and the /me route that uses it.

Hint
The default "" keeps header a string, so .replace works even when the header is missing. An empty or unknown token matches no row, and .get(token) gives undefined: that is the 401 case. Until the helper returns its user, tsc reports that it must return a value: that's expected.