how to use sessions in express, couchDB, and node.js

Question

so I basically want to use sessions to store the users name and check to see if the user logged in or not. If not, the page will redirect to the login page.

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Answer 1

I was trying to solve the exact same problem for he last few hour.

Try initializing your server like that:

var app = express.createServer(
express.cookieParser(),
express.session({ secret: "crazysecretstuff"})
  );

That should work.