Express router create a new session not wanted - node.js

Question

I am doing a react project using express and passport-local for the authentication part based on this tutorial :
https://scotch.io/tutorials/easy-node-authentication-setup-and-local
The authentification work very well, I added the express router to define my routes for my api, but when I call for example "/api/myroute" the router of express creates an other session and I lose the user, so my function isLoggedIn blocks the call of my controllers because there is no user in this new session. So my question is : Why the router recreate a session ? What it is wrong in my configuration ? Here is my code :
//server.js
var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var webpackDevMiddleware = require('webpack-dev-middleware');
var webpackHotMiddleware = require('webpack-hot-middleware');
var config = require('./webpack.config');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var port = process.env.PORT || 8080;
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var passport = require('passport');
var flash = require('connect-flash');
var morgan = require('morgan');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var session = require('express-session');
var configDB = require('./config/database.js');
var router = express.Router();
// configuration ===============================================================
mongoose.connect(configDB.url); // connect to our database
require('./config/passport')(passport); // pass passport for configuration
// set up our express application
app.use(morgan('dev')); // log every request to the console
app.use(cookieParser()); // read cookies (needed for auth)
app.use(bodyParser()); // get information from html forms
app.set('view engine', 'ejs'); // set up ejs for templating
// required for passport
app.use(session({ secret: 'secret' })); // session secret
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session()); // persistent login sessions
app.use(flash()); // use connect-flash for flash messages stored in session
var compiler = webpack(config);
app.use(webpackDevMiddleware(compiler, { noInfo: true, publicPath: config.output.publicPath }));
app.use(webpackHotMiddleware(compiler));
app.use('/plugins/bootstrap', express.static(path.join(__dirname, './plugins/bootstrap')));
app.use('/plugins/jquery', express.static(path.join(__dirname, './plugins/jquery')));
app.use('/plugins/font-awesome', express.static(path.join(__dirname, './plugins/font-awesome')));
// all of our routes will be prefixed with /api
app.use('/api', router);
// routes ======================================================================
require('./api/routes.js')(app, passport,router); // load our routes and pass in our app and fully configured passport
// launch ======================================================================
app.listen(port, function(error) {
if (error) {
console.error(error)
} else {
console.info("==> 🌎 Listening on port %s. Open up http://localhost:%s/ in your browser.", port, port)
}
});
console.log('The magic happens on port ' + port);
And here is my routes.js :
module.exports = function(app, passport,router) {
var MyController = require("../api/controllers/mycontroller");
// =====================================
// HOME PAGE (with login links) ========
// =====================================
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
console.log("welcome")
res.render('index.ejs', { message: ""}); // load the index.ejs file
});
// =====================================
// LOGIN ===============================
// =====================================
// show the login form
app.get('/login', function(req, res) {
console.log("login")
// render the page and pass in any flash data if it exists
res.render('index.ejs', { message: req.flash('loginMessage') });
});
app.post('/login', passport.authenticate('local-login', {
successRedirect : '/welcome', // redirect to the secure profile section
failureRedirect : '/login', // redirect back to the signup page if there is an error
failureFlash : true // allow flash messages
}));
// =====================================
// SIGNUP ==============================
// =====================================
// show the signup form
app.get('/signup', function(req, res) {
console.log("signup")
// render the page and pass in any flash data if it exists
res.render('signup.ejs', { message: req.flash('signupMessage') });
});
// process the signup form
app.post('/signup', passport.authenticate('local-signup', {
successRedirect : '/welcome', // redirect to the secure profile section
failureRedirect : '/signup', // redirect back to the signup page if there is an error
failureFlash : true // allow flash messages
}));
// process the signup form
// app.post('/signup', do all our passport stuff here);
// =====================================
// LOGOUT ==============================
// =====================================
app.get('/logout', function(req, res) {
console.log("logout")
req.logout();
res.redirect('/');
});
router.get('/myroute', isLoggedIn, function(req, res) {
//HERE the router recreate a session and req.user is now undefined why ?
MyController.getAllObjects(req,res);
});
// =====================================
// HOME SECTION =====================
// =====================================
// we will want this protected so you have to be logged in to visit
// we will use route middleware to verify this (the isLoggedIn function)
app.get('*', isLoggedIn, function(req, res) {
console.log("HOME")
res.render('home.ejs', {
user : req.user // get the user out of session and pass to template
});
});
};
// route middleware to make sure a user is logged in
function isLoggedIn(req, res, next) {
// if user is authenticated in the session, carry on
if (req.isAuthenticated())
return next();
console.log("redirect because not log in")
// if they aren't redirect them to the home page
res.redirect('/');
}
The function for login, logout, signin... are a copy paste of the tutorial.

Answer 1

You seem to be using the fetch library. This library does not include the domain cookies by default, so in order to work your request should look like this:
fetch('/api/myroute', {
credentials: 'same-origin' // This is the line you are missing
}).then(response => response.json())
.then(json => {
dispatch({
type: types.MY_ACTION, forms: json, receivedAt: Date.now()
})
})
See this link for more information.