Passportjs always fails the authentication - node.js

Question

I am trying to use passportjs with the following code.
So when the user goes to http://localhost:3000, he should automatically be redirected to /hello but as it does, it redirects to /hello?failure.
I have tried to debug, look around but haven't found the issue and the solution.
const express = require('express');
const passport = require('passport');
const LocalStrategy = require('passport-local').Strategy;
const session = require('express-session');
let app = express();
app.use(session({
secret: 'mysecret',
cookie: {
secure: false
},
resave: true,
saveUninitialized: true
}
));
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session()); // persistent login sessions
passport.use('local-login', new LocalStrategy(function (username, password, done) {
console.log(username + ' username ');
console.log(password + ' password ');
return done(null, { name: 'suhail' });
}));
passport.serializeUser(function (user, done) {
console.log(user, ' serialize ');
done(null, user.name);
});
passport.deserializeUser(function (id, done) {
console.log(id, ' deserialize ');
done(null, { name: 'suhail' });
});
app.get('/', passport.authenticate('local-login', { successRedirect: '/hello', failureRedirect: '/hello?failure' }));
app.get('/hello', (req, resp, next) => resp.send('hello').end());
app.listen(3000);
What is it that I am missing? It should go to http://localhost:3000/hello as the middleware always resolves.
Note:
- None of the middleware defined is called. It just redirects to /hello?failure when a GET request to / is made.

Answer 1

You are not providing username and password in your get request. Therefore the Strategycallback is never called.
Try adding this middleware in front of your routing to see what i mean:
app.use((req, res, next) => {
// fake body content for authentication
req.body = {username: 'devil', password: '666'}
next()
})
app.get('/', passport.authenticate('local-login', { successRedirect: '/hello', failureRedirect: '/hello?failure' }));