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vivekpadia70
vivekpadia70

Reputation: 1085

Is passportjs for client side or server side?

I am trying to use passport.js in my MEAN stack app for logging in the user. But I am confused about where do I use passport.js to authenticate the user.

Should I use it on the client side as in angular or else I should be using it in the express app and access profile information through the endpoints?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3705

Answers (2)

MernXL
MernXL

Reputation: 316

Passport is best suited for servers where all the views are handled by the server. It maybe a Server Side Rendered (SSR) app, or using view engines like Pug.

But when it comes down to working on a REST api server, you will see clearly that Passport is only usable if you are using strategies that would not need you redirecting to a login page and back.

An example of such strategy is passport-google, which needs to redirect the client view to google login page then calling a callback url to hand in results.

So if you only wish to use strategies like passport-local, passport-jwt it is well suited for your REST api that communicates with a client side like angular, otherwise passport is for server-side authentication.

Upvotes: 1

Stan
Stan

Reputation: 476

Passport.js is middleware that is used server-side with Node.js to implement authentication. You would use Angular (or Postman if you have no front-end yet) to access profile information stored in the database using API endpoints.

There is an excellent video series by Brad Traversy on Youtube that I went through this past weekend that goes over exactly what you're asking about: MEAN Stack Front to Back, where he builds a MEAN authentication app using passport.

Since the code was written 10 months ago, it was a little outdated, but I summarized all of the code-breaking changes in my github repo: https://github.com/Stanza987/mean-auth-app-universal. You can also see the finished product in action and download my source code if you so desire.

Upvotes: 3

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