Do I implement serialize and deserialize NodesJS + Passport + RedisStore?

Question

Do I implement Serialize and Deserialize?

RedisStore is setup as my session store with Express. Does this mean that I DO NOT implement Serialize and Deserialize? Will i

Answer 1

Given the following configuration of express-session with connect-redis as the session store (using Express 4):

redis = require('redis').createClient(6379, '127.0.0.1');
session = require('express-session');
RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(session);

app.use(session({
  store: new RedisStore({
    client: redis
  }),
  secret: 's3cret',
  resave: true,
  saveUninitialized: true
}));

You can just tell passport to serialize the entire user object, instead of just the user id.

passport.serializeUser(function(user, done){
  done(null, user);
});

passport.deserializeUser(function(user, done){
  done(null, user);
});

The entire user object will be saved with the session in Redis, and placed on the request as req.user for every request.