Why is PassportJS in Node not removing session on logout

Question

I am having trouble getting my system to log out with PassportJS. It seems the logout route is being called, but its not removing the session. I want it to return 401, if th

Answer 1

I was having the same issue, and it turned out to not be a problem with Passport functions at all, but rather in the way I was calling my /logout route. I used fetch to call the route:

(Bad)

fetch('/auth/logout')
  .then([other stuff]);

Turns out doing that doesn't send cookies so the session isn't continued and I guess the res.logout() gets applied to a different session? At any rate, doing the following fixes it right up:

(Good)

fetch('/auth/logout', { credentials: 'same-origin' })
  .then([other stuff]);