req.session is undefined using express-session

Question

I am just starting to learn how to use cookies with node and express and I would like some help with getting this to work. I tried to follow the expressjs/session tutorial o

Answer 1

To get session data

first , You have to initialize express-session with

app.use(session({ resave: true ,secret: '123456' , saveUninitialized: true}));

then When you want to put something in the session

req.session.firstName = 'Aniruddha';
req.session.lastName = 'Chakraborty';

Then you can check without errors

console.log('req.session: '+req.session.firstName);

Note: This is express-sessions work!