Issues With Passport Authentication And Config - node.js

Question

I am working on a full stack web application and am setting up the register and login routes I have connected to a local mongodb for the user model and am now working on setting up a passport config to make authentication is easy (and just for practice in the library). The thing is, that even when I hard code return done(null, user); into the config, it still returns false.
To begin with, this is my login POST route for the login page:
router.post('/', async function(req, res, next) {
if (!req.isAuthenticated()) {
passport.authenticate('local', function(err, user, info) {
if (err) { return next(err); }
if (!user) { return res.redirect('/'); }
req.logIn(user, function(err) {
if (err) { return next(err); }
return res.redirect('/account');
});
})(req, res, next);
}
});
This is my server.js code:
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
require('dotenv').config({ path: '.env' });
}
// Dependencies
const express = require('express');
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');
const session = require('express-session');
const app = express();
// Setup
app.set('view engine', 'ejs')
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }))
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(session({ secret: 'yeet', resave: false, saveUninitialized: false }));
// Passport Setup
const passport = require('passport');
require('./config/passport')(passport);
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
// MongoDB
mongoose.connect(process.env.MONGO_URL, { useNewUrlParser: true, useUnifiedTopology: true, 'useCreateIndex': true });
mongoose.connection.on('error', error => console.log(error));
mongoose.connection.once('open', () => console.log("Connected To Database"));
// Routes
const indexRouter = require('./routes/index');
const trendingRouter = require('./routes/trending');
const accountRouter = require('./routes/account');
app.use('/', indexRouter);
app.use('/trending', trendingRouter);
app.use('/account', accountRouter);
// Port
app.listen(3030);
and this is my config file itself:
const LocalStrategy = require('passport-local').Strategy;
const passport = require('passport');
const bcrypt = require('bcryptjs');
const User = require('../models/User');
module.exports = function(passport) {
passport.use(new LocalStrategy(
function(username, password, done) {
User.findOne({ userName: username }, function (err, user) {
if (err) return done(err);
if (!user) return done(null, false, { message: 'Incorrect username.' });
bcrypt.compare(password, user.userPassword, (err, isMatch) => {
if (err) throw err;
if (isMatch) return done(null, user);
return done(null, false, { message: 'Password incorrect' });
});
return done(null, user);
});
}
));
passport.serializeUser(function(user, done) {
done(null, user.id);
});
passport.deserializeUser(function(id, done) {
User.findById(id, function(err, user) {
done(err, user);
});
});
};
Now something interesting is, that I don't think my local config file is ever called. I have tried adding a console.log("test") into it, and that message never appears in the terminal. I have followed the docs though as closely as I can and have even gone through a series of tutorials to find my answers, but have come up empty handed.
What's my problem? Thank you for your time and answers.

Answer 1

I figured it out. The problem was my input fields on my view were not called username and password as they should be per the docs. That will make it so that the config file can actually retrieve the necessary information from the input fields.