Question

I’m using passport.js and I’m wounding if I can link a facebook id to a logged in user’s account. Something like this:

passport.use( new FacebookStrategy({
        consumerKey: ---
        consumerSecret: ---
        callbackURL: "http://mycallback"
    },
    function(token, tokenSecret, profile, done) {
        if (user is logged in)
            user = User.addfacebookId(user, profile.id)
            done(user);
        }
    }   
));

Answer 1

There’s a few ways to approach this, but I think one of the most straight-forward is to use the passReqToCallback option. With that enabled, req becomes the first argument to the verify callback, and from there you can check to see if req.user exists, which means the user is already logged in. At that point, you can associate the user with Facebook profile details and supply the same user instance to the done callback. If req.user does not exist, just handle it as usual.

For example:

passport.use(new FacebookStrategy({
    clientID: ---
    clientSecret: ---
    callbackURL: "http://mycallback"
    passReqToCallback: true
  },
  function(req, accessToken, refreshToken, profile, done) {
    if (req.user)
      // user is already logged in.  link facebook profile to the user
      done(req.user);
    } else {
      // not logged in.  find or create the user based on facebook profile
    }
  }   
));