Shared Sessions between Node Apps?

Question

I currently have two separate node apps running on two different ports but share the same backend data store. I need to share users sessions between the two apps so that wh

Answer 1

Maybe a bit outdated, but at this time, Express-session can recognise domain option for cookie. According to source:

function session(options){
  var options = options || {}
  //  name - previously "options.key"
    , name = options.name || options.key || 'connect.sid'
    , store = options.store || new MemoryStore
    , cookie = options.cookie || {}
      ...

And this is for setting cookie:

var Cookie = module.exports = function Cookie(options) {
  this.path = '/';
  this.maxAge = null;
  this.httpOnly = true;
  if (options) merge(this, options);
  ...

So, something like this will work for current 1.10.1 master:

secret: "my secret",
    cookie: {
        domain: "mydomain.com",