Node.js server restart drops the sessions

Question

I\'m having fully functional user signup/authentication system using express and connect middleware.

app.use(express.session({store: require(\'connect\').ses         


        

Answer 1

I was trying to get Redis on track using express.js, Google sent me here. The express implementation changed:

var express = require('express'),
RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(express);

Another important thing is the order of express configurations.

app.configure(function(){

    app.enable('strict routing'); // removes trailing slash
    app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
    app.set('view engine', 'jqtpl');
    app.register('.html', require('jqtpl').express);
    app.use(express.favicon());
    app.use(express.methodOverride());
    app.use(express.compiler({src: __dirname + '/public', enable: ['sass']}));
    app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
    app.use(app.router);
    app.use(express.bodyParser());
    app.use(express.cookieParser());
    app.use(express.session({secret: _.config.secret, store: new RedisStore}));

});

cookieParser & session configurations need to be at the end of the configurations, and cookieParser must be placed right before express.session.

Hope that helps, I ran in both of these problems.