For anyone using Koa and koa-passport:
Know that the key for the user set in the serializeUser method (often a unique id for that user) will be stored in:
this.session.passport.user
When you set in done(null, user) in deserializeUser where 'user' is some user object from your database:
this.req.user
OR
this.passport.user
for some reason this.user Koa context never gets set when you call done(null, user) in your deserializeUser method.
So you can write your own middleware after the call to app.use(passport.session()) to put it in this.user like so:
app.use(function * setUserInContext (next) {
this.user = this.req.user
yield next
})
If you're unclear on how serializeUser and deserializeUser work, just hit me up on twitter. @yvanscher