How to implement forgot password route typescript AWS Cognito Userpool?

I have a typescript project setup with AWS cognito. I have created a test userpool and have successfully been able to implement routes for login, register, confirm-account. Currently, I am working on a forgot-password route. The code for which is below. When I test this code, I get the following error message Contact administrator to reset password. Is it possible to create this route so that a confirmed user may directly view their password or perhaps even reset their password?

import AmazonCognitoIdentity from 'amazon-cognito-identity-js';

const UserPoolId = ************;
const ClientId = ************;
const region = ************

const config = {region: region }

export const resetPassword = async (req, res) => {
    try {
        const { username } = req.body;

        const poolData = {
            UserPoolId: ************,
            ClientId: ************,
          };
          
        const userPool = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUserPool(poolData);

        const userData = {
            Username: username,
            Pool: userPool,
          };

        const cognitoUser = new AmazonCognitoIdentity.CognitoUser(userData);

        
        cognitoUser.forgotPassword({
            onSuccess: (data) => {
                console.log(data)
                res.status(200).json({ message: "Password Reset"});
            },
            onFailure: (err) => {
                console.log('ERR:', err)
                res.status(401).json({ message: "Password Not Reset", error: err.message});
            },
        })
    }
    catch (err) {
        console.log("FAILED")
        console.log("Error"+ err.message)
        res.status(500).json({ message: "Password Not Reset", error: err.message});
    }
  };

The flow that I have in mind is that if this route is selected, the user could either directly reset their password, or they could get a confirmation email with a code to confirm their account and in doing so, they could obtain a new passowrd. Does this flow exist in AWS Cognito User Pools?

Any assistance would be much appreciated!

This implementation ended up being correct. The issue was that messaging was not configured properly in the AWS Cognito UI. For future reference, User Pools -> User Pool -> Messaging -> Email must be edited to allow for emails to be sent with password reset codes.