Node Express Session

A simple project demonstrating how to setup and use sessions with a node-express application. This app uses MongoDB Atlas as a session store but can either be changed to use a local instance of Mongo DB (if you don't have Atlas) or to another provider, like Redis.

Supporting repository for my medium article on Session Management-in-a-NodeJS-Express-App-with-MongoDB

Environment Variables

If you do choose to use MongoDB as your session store, make sure to create and add the following properties to either an .env file or directly to the code. Both these environment variables are used in the session.ts file.

URI: your-mongo-db-uri
SESSION_SECRET: 217389dfb3461f357204b9a189833935ac273f97

Getting Started

1. Download the project as a zip file or clone it to your machine.
2. cd into the project folder (root) and run npm i to install all the dependencies.
3. Run npm run dev to start the development server at PORT = 4000. You can change the server port value by, either adding a PORT variable in your .env file or change the value in index.ts file.
4. Run npm run ts-compile to transpile typescript code to javascript.

Tech Stack

1. Nodejs
2. Express.js
3. MongoDB Atlas
4. TypeScript