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in rails the default session store uses cookies. the session is marshaled and signed with a secret key so that client can't temper with it. this approach is very scalable and doesn't require any kind of 'backend' to work.
I can't find anything like that for Express or Connect.
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Here is a simple explanation: - A user session can be stored in two main ways with cookies: on the server or on the client. express-session stores only a session identifier on the client within a cookie and stores the session data on the server, typically in a database.
var cookieSession = require('cookie-session') var express = require('express') var app = express() app. use(cookieSession({ name: 'session', keys: ['key1', 'key2'] })) // Update a value in the cookie so that the set-cookie will be sent. // Only changes every minute so that it's not sent with every request. app.
Session cookies: Session cookies are the temporary cookies that mainly generated on the server-side. The main use of these cookies to track all the request information that has been made by the client overall particular session.
Connect 2x has one built-in and this is an example of how simple it would be to get something basic going with Express 3x https://gist.github.com/1491756 with the new signed cookie support. You can still do the same thing without upgrading but you'll need to use utils instead of those getters
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