AngularJS bad POST request with Express / Passport - angularjs

Question

Trying to authenticate with passport via AngularJS. I've found a lot of threads saying that the issue is the default Content-Type of the request. Tried a couple of ways and I always get a 400 Error (Bad Request).
$http.post('/login', {
username: $scope.user.username,
password: $scope.user.password
})
.success(function(user) {
console.log('success');
// $location.url('/');
})
.error(function() {
console.log('failed');
// location.url('/login')
})
[Snipped some stuff that I don't think is the issue]
UDPATE: I think this might be an issue with passport. Using the body-parser middleware, I'm able to tell that I'm sending the data in the following format:
{ username: me, password: 12345 }
Alas, I still get the error code 400.
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var jsonParser = bodyParser.json();
app.post('/login', jsonParser, function(req,res) {
if (!req.body) {
console.log('no body');
return res.sendStatus(400);
}
console.log(req.body);
res.end(req.user);
});
Here's the local strategy
passport.use(new LocalStrategy(
function(username, password, done) {
if (username === "me" && password === "123") {
return done(null, {name: "me"});
}
return done(null, false, {message: 'Incorrect username or password.'});
}
));
And the route for when I try to get passport to work.
app.post('/login',passport.authenticate('local'), function(req,res) {
console.log('login in server.js')
res.send(req.user);
});
Pretty sure this is all standard, based on everything I've read.

Answer 1

Needed this...
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
app.use(bodyParser.json());