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

I'm pretty new to javascript but as I understand it from the tutorials you have to implement some session middleware first as indicated by 250R.

const session = require('express-session')
const app = express()

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }))
app.use(bodyParser.json())

let sess = {
    genid: (req) => {
        console.log('Inside the session middleware')
        console.log(req.sessionID)
        return uuid()
    },
    store: new FileStore(),
    secret: 'keyboard cat', // password from environment
    resave: false,
    rolling: true,
    saveUninitialized: true,
    cookie: {
        HttpOnly: true,
        maxAge: 30 * 60 * 1000 // 30 minutes
    }
}

app.use(session(sess))

// call passport after configuring the session with express-session
// as it rides on top of it
app.use(passport.initialize())
app.use(passport.session())

// then you will be able to use the 'user' property on the `req` object
// containing all your session details
app.get('/test', function (req, res) {
    console.log(req.user)
})