passport local strategy not getting called

Question

I\'m sure I\'m missing something really obvious here, but I can\'t figure this out. The function I\'ve passed to the LocalStrategy constructor doesn\'t get called when the l

Answer 1

I also banged my head for the same problem for few hours. I was having everything in place as told by other answers like 1. Form was returning all fields. 2. body parser was setup correctly with extended:true 3. Passport with every setting and configuration.

But i have changed username field with phoneNumber and password. By changing code like below solved my problem

  passport.use('login', new LocalStrategy(
    {usernameField:'phoneNumber',
    passwordField:'password'},
    function (username, password, done) {

    // your login goes here
    })

);

If anyone want i can write the whole authentication procedure for phonenumber using mongodb and passport-local.

Thanks @user568109