Node.js + express.js + passport.js : stay authenticated between server restart

Question

I use passport.js to handle auth on my nodejs + express.js application. I setup a LocalStrategy to take users from mongodb

My problems is that users have to

Answer 1

What I ended up doing:

var expressSession = require('express-session');
var redisClient = require('redis').createClient();
var RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(expressSession);
...
app.use(expressSession({
    resave: true,
    saveUninitialized: true,
    key: config.session.key,
    secret: config.session.secret,
    store: new RedisStore({
        client: redisClient,
        host: config.db.host,
        port: config.db.port,
        prefix: 'my-app_',
        disableTTL: true
    })
}));

Works for me.