How to authenticate Supertest requests with Passport?

Question

I'm using Passport.js for authentication (local strategy) and testing with Mocha and Supertest.

How can I create a session and make authenticated requests with Supertest?

Answer 1

You should use superagent for that. It is lower level module and used by supertest. Take a look at the section Persisting an agent:

var request = require('superagent');
var user1 = request.agent();
user1
  .post('http://localhost:4000/signin')
  .send({ user: 'hunter@hunterloftis.com', password: 'password' })
  .end(function(err, res) {
    // user1 will manage its own cookies
    // res.redirects contains an Array of redirects
  });

Now you can use user1 to make authenticated requests.