show upcoming events that are in the progress of application

pages/api/events/upcoming-current.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 import dbConnect from '@/lib/dbConnect';
-import VolunteerEvents from 'bookem-shared/src/models/VolunteerEvents';
 import Users from 'bookem-shared/src/models/Users';
 import type { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from 'next';
 import { getServerSession } from 'next-auth';
 import { authOptions } from '@/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth]';
+import VolunteerApplications from 'bookem-shared/src/models/VolunteerApplications';
+import ApplicationResponse from 'bookem-shared/src/models/ApplicationResponse';
+import VolunteerEvents from 'bookem-shared/src/models/VolunteerEvents';
+import { UserData } from 'bookem-shared/src/types/database';
 
 export default async function handler(
   req: NextApiRequest,
@@ -27,16 +30,25 @@ export default async function handler(
         // Fetch the user by ID to get their events array
         // session.user._id shouldn't be null because we have the middleware to
         // handle unauthenticated users
-        const user = await Users.findById(session.user._id);
+        const user: UserData | null = await Users.findById(session.user._id);
         if (!user) {
           return res.status(404).json({ message: 'User not found' });
         }
 
+        // select the events that user signed up for but are still in the application process
+        const inProgressApplications = await ApplicationResponse.find({
+          volunteer: session.user._id,
+        });
+
+        const inProgressApplicationEventIds = inProgressApplications.map(
+          application => application.event
+        );
+
         // Use the user's events array to filter the VolunteerEvents
         // select * from events where id in user.events and (startDate > today or (startDate < today and endDate > today))
         const currentDate = new Date();
         const events = await VolunteerEvents.find({
-          _id: { $in: user.events },
+          _id: { $in: user.events.concat(inProgressApplicationEventIds) },
           published: true,
           $or: [
             {

pages/api/volunteer-logs/index.ts

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export default async function handler(
 
         const usersId = user._id;
 
+        // "dark magic" to register the volunteerEvent model so that the populate method works
         await VolunteerEvents.findOne();
         // get all volunteerEvents from collection that match the user's Id
         const volunteerLogs = await VolunteerLogs.find({