How to end a session in ExpressJS

Question

I feel like this has to be buried somewhere in the documentation, but I can\'t find it.

How do you close or end or kill (whatever) a session in ExpressJS?

Answer 1

Using req.session = null;, won't actually delete the session instance. The most proper solution would be req.session.destroy();, but this is essentially a wrapper for delete req.session;.

https://github.com/expressjs/session/blob/master/session/session.js

Session.prototype.destroy = function(fn){
  delete this.req.session;
  this.req.sessionStore.destroy(this.id, fn);
  return this;
};