jwalton/passport-api-docs resource

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A community-written API reference manual for Passport.js, the popular Node.js authentication middleware. It documents each Passport class method, strategy authoring, and session handling in a precise, function-by-function style complementing the official example-driven docs.

Use cases

• understand what passport.initialize() and passport.session() actually do
• learn how passport.authenticate options and callbacks work
• figure out how req.login and req.logout behave
• write a custom Passport authentication strategy
• debug Passport session serialization and deserialization
• use multiple Passport instances in a library without polluting the global one

When to choose

• you use Passport.js with Express or Connect and want precise API-level documentation
• the official example-based docs leave you guessing about function behavior
• you're building or maintaining a Passport strategy

When to avoid

• you need a tutorial or getting-started guide rather than API reference
• you're not using Passport.js for Node.js authentication
• you need guaranteed up-to-date docs straight from the maintainers

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

auth middleware documentation web-development backend documentation passportjs authentication api-docs express reference-manual nodejs web-server

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