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TIMEX
TIMEX

Reputation: 271934

By default, how are Node.js sessions handled?

So, I did a basic setup:

app.use(express.session({secret:'abc'}));

I did not install redis or any database. By default, how does Node.js handle sessions? Where do they store it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1109

Answers (2)

Jude Calimbas
Jude Calimbas

Reputation: 2854

here's how you do sessions

// how you setup session
var MemoryStore = require('express').session.MemoryStore;
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({ secret: "keyboard cat", store: new MemoryStore({ reapInterval:  60000 * 10 })}));

//to store sessions
app.post('/',function(req,res){
  req.session.user = "myname"; 
});

Upvotes: 0

Matt Ball
Matt Ball

Reputation: 359876

By default the session middleware uses the memory store bundled with Connect, however many implementations exist.

http://expressjs.com/guide.html#session-support

The memory store in Connect: http://senchalabs.github.com/connect/middleware-session-memory.html

So, it's just an in-memory data store (I'm guessing something like a mapping from session ID to {}).

Upvotes: 1

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