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

Apparently there are multiple possible causes of this issue. In my case the problem was wrong order of declarations i.e. the logout endpoint was declared before passport initialization. The right order is:

app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());


app.get('/logout', function(req, res) {
  req.logout();
  res.redirect('/');
});