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

It's possible your request wasn't formatted properly (particularly the body of it) and your username and password weren't being sent when you thought they were.

Here is an example of an API call wrapper that enforces your request body is parsed as json:

Api = {};
Api.request = (route, options) => {
  options = options || {};

  options.method = options.method || 'GET';
  options.credentials = 'include';

  if (options.method === 'POST') {
    options.headers = {
      'Accept': 'application/json',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    };
    options.body = JSON.stringify(options.data) || '{}';
  }

  fetch(absoluteUrl + '/api/' + route, options)
    .then((response) => response.json())
    .then(options.cb || (() => {}))
    .catch(function(error) {
      console.log(error);
    });
};

It can be used this way:

Api.request('login', {
  data: {
    username: this.state.username,
    password: this.state.password
  },
  method: 'POST',
  cb: proxy((user) => {
    console.log(user);
  }, this)
});