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I'm designing authentication for an Express app that will run behind a load balancer configured with sticky sessions (cookie-based affinity). Passport supports both approaches I'm weighing: the classic serializeUser / deserializeUser hooks backed by express-session , and the passport-jwt strategy with session: false so no server-side state is kept at all. My
Session Expiration Time Zone Conversion Limits Passport.js delegates session management to express-session, where the expires option is interpreted as a UTC timestamp without timezone metadata. The goal is to present session expiration times to users in their local time zone, or at least expose timezone-aware session metadata, without breaking server-side va
Custom Callback Integration In Passport.js (v0.6.x–v0.7.x), the passport.authenticate() middleware allows for a custom callback to handle the authentication result manually. When utilizing the default middleware behavior, providing failureFlash: true in the options object automatically populates req.flash() with the message returned by the strategy. Configur
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