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.

I am usi

Answer 1

I had same issue of getting undefined for session variable which I knew was set ok.

In my case it turned out to be caused by cross origin request, I had forgotten the withCredentials header on the request.

So for example in my client side Angular app I needed to do this:

var config = { withCredentials: true };
return $http.get(appConfig.apiUrl + '/orders', config);

and in Express this:

res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', true);