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Simple session middleware for Express

The express-session module is a simple session middleware for Express.

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Cross-Domain Session Cookie (Express API on Heroku + React App on Netlify)

I have a React App making calls to an API in node.js/Express. Frontend is deployed in Netlify (https), Backend deployed on Heroku (https). My problem: Everything working in dev environment (localhost) In production (Netlify/Heroku), the api calls…
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How Session Data is stored in NodeJS in server-side?

I am a beginner in NodeJS. I was working on a simple session-based user authorization to get a taste and it is working perfectly fine as there are plenty of examples around the internet which are easy to understand. I used express-session and the…
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Node Express-Session & React Frontend not storing Cookie with Axios

Fellow web developer here. I seem to be running into this problem (that didn't occur until recently) where the cookie Session ID gets changed on every API request. Edit Confirms to work in IE11 & Edge!? Not Chome?! WTF! Doesn't work with fetch and…
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Connect-pg-simple not saving session to database

I am trying to implement simple authentication with Node, Express, Express-Session and Passport.js. As a storage middleware I'm using connect-pg-simple as I am using pg-promise in my project. I managed to configure passport to work with my routers…
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set up mssql-session-store in node.js

I'm trying to use mssql-session-store as nodejs (express) store for session: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql-session-store This is how it should be configured(from npm page): app.use(session({ secret: 'keyboard cat', resave:…
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Trouble setting cookies with Express.JS + Nginx

I am in the middle of decoupling my frontend from my backend repo. In doing so I am hosting my server on a personal Raspberry Pi 3 on my home network. My frontend is hosted by Netlify. I have run into a problem where I am not able to set cookies on…
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How to implement CSRF protection in Nextjs with Apollo and GraphQL

Following this example in Nextjs repository, I want to implement the CSRF protection (perhaps with csurf package), because I'm using a session ID cookie with express-session. I tried setting csurf in my custom server and save the generated token in…
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Simple Node/Express app not recognizing Session store

I have an extremely small express app to illustrate a problem I'm having. I'm using connect-redis as a session store on my express app. I'm having a problem simply connecting to it though. Simply printing out req.session.store results in undefined…
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(Next.js, Express session) New session for every request made inside getInitialProps

I am trying to make Express session work with Next.js, and have successfully done so on the client side, but I am having trouble with API calls made from inside getInitialProps. Note: I am using isomorphic-unfetch to make API calls. My Next.js…
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Node express session not persisting in IPhone IOS

I have an application using Angular and Node (Nest JS) , in the server side i'm using express-session. In my middleware i'm adding the logged in user to the session: req.session.user = user; When the user tries to login using an Iphone he is not…
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Express-session not persistent after redirect

Yesterday, I tried to make a website, using Node.js and the framework Express.js. On this website, the user needs to log, with credentials, who are checked in database. If the credentials are correct, I want to save the user's informations in a…
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How To Access Session Variables From Seperate Route Files

I am currently using express and express-session to save information. If I save a session variable like this in file 'routes/login.js' req.session.user = "User1" How do I then access that same variable from 'routes/index.js' because currently if I…
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What is a secure session secret?

I am using express-session and I need to create a session secret. I have read that the secret is used for hashing. How long and what characters should this secret have? I was thinking about a random alphanumerical string like this:…
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how to manage multiple session in express js

i am building a site that as two url ('/','/admin') session are conflicting here is my app.js session code app.use(logger('dev')); app.use(bodyParser.json()); app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })); app.use(cookieParser()); …
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Retrieving connection pool from Knex (to share it with express-mysql-session)

I've got knex configured to use MySQL with pooling: var knex = require("knex")({ client: "mysql", connection: { host: ..., user: ..., password: ..., database: ... }, pool: { min: 0, …
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