Verifying roles & authentication with Passport.js

Question

So I\'d like to make some routes in an API that will show different data based on the user role, defined in MongoDB. Here\'s a sampling of what I have right now, it works...

Answer 1

The solution I've found to my answer is to use an adaptation of the Passportjs.org documentation.

In the routes I need to return data, whether a user is logged in or not I can use something like:

// Test to check for authentication
app.get('/login', function(req, res, next) {
  passport.authenticate('bearer', function(err, user, info) {
    if (user)
        // check user's role for premium or not
        if (user.role == "premium")
            return res.send('user is premium')
        else
            return res.send('user is not premium');
    else
        // return items even if no authentication is present, instead of 401 response
            return res.send('not logged in');
  })(req, res, next);
});