Create session in pure Node js

Question

Create session in pure Node js

I know we can create session using Express JS using following,

express.session({  secret: 'secret' });

But I don't want to use any framework. Just only with Node-JS, how can we create session and maintain it?

node.js

Answer 1

You can check out node-sessions. I have not used it, but after skimming it's home page it looks like you don't need to use any framework.

Answer 2

I do it the following way. I store the session information retrieved from the form into the redis database. You can use something like the one given to store the session information.

var json= JSON.parse(body.toString());

exchange.addUserSession(redisClient,json.userID,json.sessionID,function(err, response){
    console.log(response);
    res.end(response.toString());
    redisClient.quit();
});

And then something like this to actually store the session information in the database.

exports.addUserSession = function (redisClient,userId,sessionId,callback){
    //add the user and its session in appsession hash map in redis
    redisClient.hset('appsession',sessionId,userId,function(err,response){
        callback(err,response);
    });
};

Hope it helps