Nodejs Passport Authentication
I am following the nodejs book here: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/mean-web-development
Everything goes smoothly until I try to login using the passport module. It just hangs without error. I've tried other solutions I've found on SO, such as reordering middleware, but I think they might be for different versions of Express, as some syntaxes look slightly different (and don't work). Here are the relevant parts. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Package.json:
{
"name": "MEAN",
"version": "0.0.3",
"description": "First mean app",
"dependencies": {
"express": "~4.8.8",
"morgan": "~1.3.0",
"compression": "~1.0.11",
"body-parser": "~1.8.0",
"method-override": "~2.2.0",
"express-session": "~1.7.6",
"ejs": "~1.0.0",
"connect-flash": "~0.1.1",
"mongoose": "~3.8.15",
"passport": "~0.2.1",
"passport-local": "~1.0.0"
}
}
express.js:
module.exports = function(){
var app = express();
if(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development'){
app.use(morgan('dev'));
}else if(process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'){
app.use(compress());
}
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
extended: true
}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(methodOverride());
app.use(session({
saveUnitialized: true,
resave: true,
secret: config.sessionSecret
}));
app.set('views', './app/views');
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(flash());
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
require('../app/routes/index.server.routes.js')(app);
require('../app/routes/users.server.routes.js')(app);
app.use(express.static('./public'));
return app;
};
passport.js
module.exports = function(){
var User = mongoose.model('User');
passport.serializeUser(function(user, done){
done(null, user.id);
});
passport.deserializeUser(function(id, done){
User.findOne({
_id: id
}, '-password -salt'), function(err, user){
done(err, user);
};
});
require('./strategies/local.js')();
};
routing:
app.route('/signin')
.get(users.renderSignin)
.post(passport.authenticate('local',{
successRedirect: '/',
failureRedirect: '/signin',
failureFlash: true
}));
Edit: this appears to be the pass.deserializeUser function where things break
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