Passport.js - passing {user: req.user} to template implicitly?

Question

Using Passport.js and Express for multiple projects now, I have noticed myself doing this over and over again, namely specifying { user: req.user } explicitly f

Answer 1

You could use a simple middleware for that:

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  res.locals.user = req.user;
  next();
});

This will make a user variable available in all templates, provided that req.user is populated. Make sure that you declare that middleware after you declare the passport.session middleware, but before any routes.