I have an express app with a user and admin section. Both will run on different ports and need different authentication. I created an app.js where I include passport and create an app as well as adminApp. Then I initialize passport for both as follows:

var passport = require('passport');
var app = express();
var adminapp = express();

adminapp.use(passport.initialize());
adminapp.use(passport.session());

app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());

Now I have routes defined to listen to /auth and handle authentication. Since I am running these on different ports, I have same patterns for routes, and both are listening correctly on their ports. So lets say I have a userSessions.js and adminSessions.js files to handle the authentication routes. These are included as follows:

var userSessions = require('./routes/userSessions');
var adminSessions = require('./routes/adminSessions');

app.use('/auth', userSessions);
adminapp.use('/auth', adminSessions); 

Now if I try to authenticate on the admin app, it still goes to the passport.serializeUser and passport.deSerializeUser methods of userSessions.js.

How can I handle this situation so that admin and user authentication are handled separately? Or am I doing this the wrong way and admin section should be handled in pletely different app?

I have an express app with a user and admin section. Both will run on different ports and need different authentication. I created an app.js where I include passport and create an app as well as adminApp. Then I initialize passport for both as follows:

var passport = require('passport');
var app = express();
var adminapp = express();

adminapp.use(passport.initialize());
adminapp.use(passport.session());

app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());

Now I have routes defined to listen to /auth and handle authentication. Since I am running these on different ports, I have same patterns for routes, and both are listening correctly on their ports. So lets say I have a userSessions.js and adminSessions.js files to handle the authentication routes. These are included as follows:

var userSessions = require('./routes/userSessions');
var adminSessions = require('./routes/adminSessions');

app.use('/auth', userSessions);
adminapp.use('/auth', adminSessions); 

Now if I try to authenticate on the admin app, it still goes to the passport.serializeUser and passport.deSerializeUser methods of userSessions.js.

How can I handle this situation so that admin and user authentication are handled separately? Or am I doing this the wrong way and admin section should be handled in pletely different app?

• javascript
• node.js
• authentication
• express
• passport.js

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Have not tried but you can look for passports

var Passport = require('passport').Passport,
    appPass = new Passport(),
    adminappPass = new Passport();