Azure AD with msal-node: How to get user profile?

Question

I have a nodejs/expressjs application that uses @azure/msal-node library for user-login. For this, I followed the official Microsoft Documentation.

User login works like a charm.

But now I have to access the user's profile, and most important, the user's name. I tried many solutions, but nothing works.

For example, in server.js, I tried this.app.getUser(); as well as this.app.getAccount(); as suggested here. But this does not work and in the Thread I linked here, someone says it only works with version "^0.2.4". Tried this, but npm could not find this version.

And as suggested in this answer, I also set family_name and general_name in Azure AD for my application, but I do not know how to get the information from the Token. Because in Chrome Developer Tools, there is no Token sent that contains these information.

Here is what I have so far:

// server.js
const path = require('path');

const express = require("express");
const msal = require('@azure/msal-node');

const SERVER_PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000; 
const REDIRECT_URI = "http://localhost:3000"; 

const config = {
    auth: {
        clientId: "xyz",
        authority: "xyz",
        clientSecret: "xyz"
    },
    system: {
        loggerOptions: {
            loggerCallback(loglevel, message, containsPii) {
                console.log(message);
            },
            piiLoggingEnabled: false,
            logLevel: msal.LogLevel.Verbose,
        }
    }
};

// Create msal application object
const pca = new msal.ConfidentialClientApplication(config);

// Create Express App and Routes
const app = express();

app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, './build')));

app.get('/login', (req, res) => {
    const authCodeUrlParameters = {
        scopes: ["user.read"],
        redirectUri: REDIRECT_URI,
    };

    // get url to sign user in and consent to scopes needed for application
    pca.getAuthCodeUrl(authCodeUrlParameters).then((response) => {
        console.log("my response: ", response);
        // Here I tried pca.getUser(); and pca.getAccount();
        res.redirect(response);
    }).catch((error) => console.log(JSON.stringify(error)));
});

app.listen(SERVER_PORT, () => console.log(`Msal Node Auth Code Sample app listening on port ${SERVER_PORT}!`))

Since I works with express.js and React as frontend: Should I better user msal-react? I wanted to avoid this because this is not officially supported by Microsoft.

Azure AD with msal-node: How to get user profile?

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