MEAN Web Development - Second Edition

Configuring sessions

Sessions are a common web application pattern that allows you to keep track of the user's behavior when they visit your application. To add this functionality, you will need to install and configure the express-session middleware. To do this, start by modifying your package.json file as follows:

{
  "name": "MEAN",
  "version": "0.0.3",
  "dependencies": {
    "body-parser": "1.15.2",
    "compression": "1.6.0",
    "ejs": "2.5.2",
    "express": "4.14.0",
    "express-session": "1.14.1",
    "method-override": "2.3.6",
    "morgan": "1.7.0"
  }
}

Then, install the express-session module by navigating to your project's root folder in the command line and issuing the following command:

$ npm update

Once the installation process is finished, you'll be able to configure ...