# jwalton/passport-api-docs

Documentation for Passport.js.

Repository: https://github.com/jwalton/passport-api-docs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/passport-api-docs
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-02-04T14:51:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3044, "days_push": 1671, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1772, forks 73 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:34.018373+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: auth, middleware, documentation
- domain: web-development, backend, documentation
- platform: -
- tags: passportjs, authentication, api-docs, express, reference-manual, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- jwalton/passport-api-docs (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.018373+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:25:57.672002+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jwalton/passport-api-docs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:34.018373+00:00, sha c47eb986c08b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.