passport.use is not being called - express

Question

I want to learn how to use passport js, so I created a dummy project with front-end and express back-end, the front-end form is sending a post request to "/emailAndPassword" route on express.
the request is sent successfully but passport.use is not being called and the authenticate middleware is allway redirected to "/failure" route.
Can anybody help me, the code is here:
const express = require("express");
const cors = require("cors");
const passport = require("passport");
const LocalStrategy = require("passport-local").Strategy;
const session = require("express-session");
const app = express();
app.use(cors());
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(
session({
secret: "secret",
saveUninitialized: false,
resave: false,
})
);
passport.use(
new LocalStrategy(
{ usernameField: "username", passwordField: "password" },
function(username, password, done) {
return done(null, { username: "rest#test.com", password: "some-characters" });
}
)
);
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
app.get("/", (req, res) => {
res.send("success");
});
app.get("/failure", (req, res) => {
res.send("failure");
});
app.post(
"/emailAndPassword",
passport.authenticate("local", {
failureRedirect: "/failure",
successRedirect: "/",
}),
(req, res) => {
res.redirect("/")
}
);
app.listen(5000, () => {
console.log("listening...");
});

Answer 1

Try to put passport.use() function below passport.initialize()
Like:
app.use(passport.initialize())
app.use(passport.session())
passport.use(
new LocalStrategy(
{ usernameField: "username", passwordField: "password" },
function(username, password, done) {
return done(null, { username: "rest#test.com", password: "some-characters" });
}
)
)