passport: different redirect for login and account registration

Question

i'm using the passport module (github authentication) in my app and i want to redirect depending on the action ... i check if it's just a normal login or if the user logs in for the first time. ``` passport.use(new GitHubStrategy({ clientID: conf.github.app_id, clientSecret: conf.github.app_secret, callbackURL: conf.github.callback_url }, function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) { // asynchronous verification, for effect... process.nextTick(function () { // To keep the example simple, the user's GitHub profile is returned to // represent the logged-in user. In a typical application, you would want // to associate the GitHub account with a user record in your database, // and return that user instead. Models_User.findOrCreateUser(profile, function(msg){ console.log("auth type:" + msg); }); return done(null, profile); }); } )); ``` in my findOrCreateUser function i check if it's a new user and do all the db action ... for testing i let the function return a msg variable which…

Accepted Answer

In your verify callback, I would change things up so that the `findOrCreateUser` function supplies the actual record to the callback, and then pass that through to `done()`, like so:

```
Models_User.findOrCreateUser(profile, function(user){
  console.log("auth type:" + msg);
  return done(null, user);
});

// take this out, use the actual model above
//return done(null, profile);
```

Now, when handling the callback URL after authentication, you can check this user record and see if it was new (I'm assuming it has an isNew property here):

```
app.get('/auth/github/callback', 
  passport.authenticate('github', { failureRedirect: '/login' }),
  function(req, res) {
    // successful auth, user is set at req.user.  redirect as necessary.
    if (req.user.isNew) { return res.redirect('/back_again'); }
    res.redirect('/welcome');
  });
```

passport: different redirect for login and account registration

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