res.locals An object that contains response local variables scoped to the request, and therefore available only to the view(s) rendered during that request / response cycle (if any). Otherwise, this property is identical to app.locals.
This property is useful for exposing request-level information such as the request path name, authenticated user, user settings, and so on.
This allows access to the
res.locals
variable which commonly stores data between middleware:https://expressjs.com/en/api.html#res.locals