ExpressJS & Websocket & session sharing

Question

I\'m trying to make a chat application based on Node.js. I\'d like to force websocket server (ws library) to using ExpressJS session system. Unfortunately, I\'ve got stuck.

Answer 1

WS v3.0.0 and above, has changed the behaviour so the given answers won't work out of the box for those versions. For current versions, the signature of the connection method is [function(socket, request)] and the socket no longer contains a reference to the request.

ws.on(
    'connection',
    function (socket, req)
    {
        sessionParser(
            req,
            {},
            function()
            {
                console.log(req.session);
            }
        );
    }
);