I have two node app projects, where one is for the login authentication server (server_app.js) and another one is dashboard node project (app_dashboard.js). I'm storing sessions in mongodb store collection named sessions.
server_app.js
const mongoDbStore = require('connect-mongodb-session')(session);
const uuidv4 = require('uuid').v4;
const store = new mongoDbStore({
uri: MONGODB_URI,
collection: 'sessions'
});
app.use(session({
secret: uuidv4(),
cookie: {
path: '/',
domain: 'localhost',
},
store: store,
name: 'sid',
}))
Now I'm forwarding session_id to another app after successful login in cookies and I want to refer the same MongoDB store in my session of app_dashboard.js, How do I make it work to refer same mongo store used in server_app.js to validate my sessions?
app_dashboard.js
app.use(session({
secret: uuidv4(),
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: false,
// name: 'sessionid',
// store: store
}))
Use the same options for the store
and session
on both. You'll need to have the same secret
for both, so generate a cryptographically secure random string for that and pass it into both via environment variables (process.env
).