Passport: Allow sign up with name and email address? (Local Strategy)

Question

Is there any way to allow a user to register on the local strategy with his password, email and name?
Every example I could find online only use name/password or email/p

Answer 1

This has actually nothing to do with passport and is pretty simple, assuming you are using body-parser. Make sure you have an input field in your form with the attribute name="name" where you register the user's name like:

    Name
    
 

In your routing, you can access this field with req.body.name:

passport.use('local-signup', new LocalStrategy({
    usernameField: 'email',
    passwordField: 'password',
    //are there other options?
    //emailField did not seem to do anything
    passReqToCallback: true
},
function(req, email, password, done) {
    //check if email not already in database
    //create new user using "email" and "password"
    //I want an additional parameter here "name"

    user.email = email;
    user.password = password; // Do some hashing before storing

    user.name = req.body.name;

}));

So you can add as many form input fields as you want, access them by the value of the name attribute. A Second example would be:

// Access them by
user.city = req.body.city;
user.country = req.body.country;