Passport local returns error 400 bad request with Angular

Question

I am trying to integrate passport to my code\'s login form. Client side calling server side works as it should until i call passport.authenticate in the request, 400 Bad Request

Answer 1

This error also comes from trying to access the HTML DOM elements without using body-parser

body-parser is a module that let's you traverse the html document tree to read response especially in case of input fields

Use -

var parser = require('body-parser');
var urlencodedParser = parser.urlencoded({extended : false});


    app.post("/authenticate", urlencodedParser, passport.authenticate('local'), function (request, response)
    {           
        response.redirect('/');                      
    });