passport-local – Tarik Billa

passport’s req.isAuthenticated always returning false, even when I hardcode done(null, true)

April 7, 2023 by Tarik

I had a similar issue. Could be due to the express-session middleware needed for passport. Fixed it by using middlewares in the following order: (Express 4) var session = require(‘express-session’); // required for passport session app.use(session({ secret: ‘secrettexthere’, saveUninitialized: true, resave: true, // using store session on MongoDB using express-session + connect store: new MongoStore({ … Read more

Sending back a JSON response when failing Passport.js authentication

March 2, 2023 by Tarik

I had a similar issue with Passport and failed login responses. I was building an API, and wanted all responses to be returned as JSON. Passport responds to an invalid password with status: 401 and body: Unauthorized. That’s just a text string in the body, not JSON, so it broke my client which expected all … Read more

Passport.js – Error: failed to serialize user into session

October 13, 2022 by Tarik

It looks like you didn’t implement passport.serializeUser and passport.deserializeUser. Try adding this: passport.serializeUser(function(user, done) { done(null, user); }); passport.deserializeUser(function(user, done) { done(null, user); });