How to get equivalent of “req.something” from in angular with nodejs

Question

I\'m following a tutorial on how to set up authentication with nodejs and passport. (http://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript/easy-node-authentication-setup-and-local)

Answer 1

A similar question was answered here: What is the proper way to log in users using Angular & Express?

TLDR: the answer posted was to the following link, where the author describes that you need to keep all the passport stuff on the server side, and then allow the client side (angular stuff) to request information about the session. http://vickev.com/#!/article/authentication-in-single-page-applications-node-js-passportjs-angularjs