Do you think it would be worth it to add a change password screen?

[quantuminformation]

Similar to https://github.com/Qolzam/react-social-network/issues/36

[jayair]

@QuantumInformation I think we can make it an extra chapter possibly. It's not hard to do but it does complicate the app a bit more by having to create an extra screen.

But in case other folks find this thread here are some ideas on how to implement it.

• Get the current Cognito user object by calling getCurrentCognitoUser from src/libs/awsLib.js
• Ensure that user is authenticated by calling getUserToken again from src/libs/awsLib.js

• Finally, use the Cognito JS SDK changePassword to change the user's password to the new one they set.

  cognitoUser.changePassword('oldPassword', 'newPassword', function(err, result) {
      if (err) {
          alert(err);
          return;
      }
      console.log('call result: ' + result);
  });

These are the steps to change their password using the Cognito JS SDK but you still need to create a form in React to ask your user to type in their old password and the new password.