Redirecting to previous page after authentication in node.js using passport.js

Question

I\'m trying to establish a login mechanism using node.js, express and passport.js. The Login itself works quite nice, also sessions are stored nicely with redis but I do hav

Answer 1

I don't know about passport, but here's how I do it:

I have a middleware I use with app.get('/account', auth.restrict, routes.account) that sets redirectTo in the session...then I redirect to /login

auth.restrict = function(req, res, next){
    if (!req.session.userid) {
        req.session.redirectTo = '/account';
        res.redirect('/login');
    } else {
        next();
    }
};

Then in routes.login.post I do the following:

var redirectTo = req.session.redirectTo || '/';
delete req.session.redirectTo;
// is authenticated ?
res.redirect(redirectTo);