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shinryu333
shinryu333

Reputation: 333

Node.js + Express Sessions: How to keep track of date and time of last visit?

I was wondering how one would be able to keep track of a user's last visit on a site with Express? For example:

1.User visits site for the first time, receives a welcome.

2.The next time user visits site, it will display the date and time of their last visit.

I've looked into the Express sessions documentation but I didn't see a solution for dealing with this.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1959

Answers (1)

Charlie
Charlie

Reputation: 23778

You can use Express sessions combined with the cookies to get this effect.

var express = require('express');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var session = require('express-session');

var app = express();

app.use(cookieParser());
app.use(session({secret: "Shh, its a secret!"}));

app.get('/', function(req, res){
   if(req.session.page_views){
      req.session.page_views++;
      res.send("You visited this page " + req.session.page_views + " times");
   } else {
      req.session.page_views = 1;
      res.send("Welcome to this page for the first time!");
   }
});
app.listen(3000);

Here is the tutorial.

The best is to understand how the sessions work by exploiting HTTP cookies.

Upvotes: 2

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