MongoDB Session Storage for ExpressJS

This module is an addon for ExpressJS that adds a new Session Storage device.

Install

npm install https://github.com/trottski/express-session-mongo/archive/master.tar.gz

Usage

The standard usage, is to just pass an instantiated MongoStore instance to the session plugin.

var xp = require('express'),
    MongoStore = require('express-session-mongo');

var app = xp.createServer();

app.configure(function(){
    app.use(xp.cookieDecoder());
    app.use(xp.session({ store: new MongoStore() }));
    app.use(app.router);
});

You can also pass several options to the constructor to tweak your session store:

• db - The name of the db to use, defaults to: express-sessions
• ip - The IP address of the server to connect to, defaults to: 127.0.0.1
• port - The Port to connect to, defaults to: 27017
• collection - The collection to save it's data to, defaults to: sessions
• server - A custom mongo Server instance (this overides db, ip & port):
• fsync - Confirm writes after they have been flushed to disk, default: false.
• native_parser - Use BSON native parser, defaults to: true.
• username - The username for the database.
• password - The password which corresponds to the database
• authenciated - An err-first callback that fires once connected and an auth attempt is made.

Removing stale sessions

MongoDB 2.2 and above supports doing this via an index, see http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/expire-data/ To enable this, run

db.sessions.ensureIndex( { "lastAccess": 1 }, { expireAfterSeconds: 3600 } )

Mongo will now remove all sessions older than an hour (every 60 seconds).

Changes from davglass/express-session-mongo

1. Removes connect as a dependency
2. Adds fsync and native_parser options to constructor
3. Removes manual session cleanup cleanup code (see Removing stale sessions below)

License

Licensed under my standard BSD license.

Based on these classes

• Sencha Connect Memory Store
• ciaranj's express-session-mongodb