redis-session

A redis-backed session store for express

redis-session simplifies the setting up of a redis backed session store for express.

Usage

const app = express();
const session = require('@lennym/redis-session');
app.use(session({ secret: 'a better secret than this' }));

Options

• secret - String - Required - used to sign cookies and encrypt data in redis. Should be a high-entropy string
• host - String - hostname of your redis instance - default localhost
• port - Number - port of your redis instance - default 6379
• ttl - Number - expiry time of your session in seconds - default null
• name - String - the name of the session cookie - default sid
• path - String - the path of the session cookie - default /
• secure - Boolean - if set to true will only transmit session cookies over https connections - default process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'