express-tiny-session

API

View counter example:

var express = require('express')
var session = require('express-tiny-session')
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser')

var app = express();
var secret = 'my_secret';
app.use(cookieParser(secret))

app.use(session({
  secret:secret,
  signed:true
}))

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
  var n = req.session.views || 0
  req.session.views = ++n
  res.end(n + ' views')
})

app.listen(3000)

Options

• name - The cookie name. Defaults to express:sess.
• secret - A string which will be used to signing cookie

Cookie Options

The options can also contain any of the follow:

• maxAge: a number representing the milliseconds from Date.now() for expiry
• expires: a Date object indicating the cookie's expiration date (expires at the end of session by default).
• path: a string indicating the path of the cookie (/ by default).
• domain: a string indicating the domain of the cookie (no default).
• secure: a boolean indicating whether the cookie is only to be sent over HTTPS (false by default for HTTP, true by default for HTTPS).
• secureProxy: a boolean indicating whether the cookie is only to be sent over HTTPS (use this if you handle SSL not in your node process).
• httpOnly: a boolean indicating whether the cookie is only to be sent over HTTP(S), and not made available to client JavaScript (true by default).
• signed: a boolean indicating whether the cookie is to be signed (false by default).
• overwrite: a boolean indicating whether to overwrite previously set cookies of the same name (false by default). If this is true, all cookies set during the same request with the same name (regardless of path or domain) are filtered out of the Set-Cookie header when setting this cookie.