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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

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Learning Node.js for .NET Developers

Overview of this book

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment that allows you to use JavaScript to develop server-side web applications. This short guide will help you develop applications using JavaScript and Node.js, leverage your existing programming skills from .NET or Java, and make the most of these other platforms through understanding the Node.js programming model. You will learn how to build web applications and APIs in Node, discover packages in the Node.js ecosystem, test and deploy your Node.js code, and more. Finally, you will discover how to integrate Node.js and .NET code.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Learning Node.js for .NET Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Express sessions


Many of Passport's strategies are based on HTTP sessions. At the moment, our application is just using simple cookies to store user IDs. To use Passport for third-party authentication, we'll need to add session support into our application. Express provides session support in the express-session module. First, we add this to our application:

> npm install express-session --save

We also need somewhere to store session data. Express supports a variety of session stores via additional modules. Redis is well suited to this task and we already have a Redis instance available. We can use the connect-redis module to store sessions in Redis:

> npm install connect-redis --save

We can now create a new configuration module to keep all our session logic in one place. Since this will return middleware, we'll put it in the middleware folder here src/middleware/sessions.js:

'use strict';

const session = require('express-session');

let config = {
    secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET...