Passport.js: how to access user object after authentication?

Question

I\'m using Passport.js to login a user with username and password. I\'m essentially using the sample code from the Passport site. Here are the relevant parts (I think) of my c

Answer 1

You'll need to make sure that you register a middleware that populates req.session before registering the passport middlewares.

For example the following uses express cookieSession middleware

app.configure(function() {

  // some code ...

  app.use(express.cookieParser());
  app.use(express.bodyParser());
  app.use(express.cookieSession()); // Express cookie session middleware 
  app.use(passport.initialize());   // passport initialize middleware
  app.use(passport.session());      // passport session middleware 

  // more code ...

});