Node and Express - Sessions

Learn what sessions are, the express-session library, how sessions work with cookies to add persistence to an application, the difference between a session and a cookie, session security, what a session cookie is, and how to customize a session cookie.

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0:00 – Introduction
0:15 – What is a Session?
0:23 – Why do we need Sessions?
0:45 – Cookies vs Sessions
1:07 – How do Sessions Work?
1:42 – express-session
2:08 – express-session and cookie-parser
2:59 – Registering express-session as Middleware
3:16 – What is a Session Secret?
4:06 – Session Secret Security
4:19 – Viewing Session in Chrome Application Tab
4:53 – Customizing t he Session Cookie
5:41 – Express Login Users with Session
8:33 – Deleting a Session
9:29 – Demonstrating Login with Session
10:59 - Outro

[alan-oqvk]

My God man. You are the only one who is explaining it so it makes sense. Thank you

[BigSmoke-rw]

Your explanation is amazing! Thank you. You got yourself another subscriber ❤

[mix_mash]

can you please make a video regarding using session in production environment

[yacoubabakar]

this is the clearest explanation iv seen yet, thank you so much for this youve got a follower!

[AdrianNadeau]

Thanks for this! You clearly explained things well! I looked around for a while for this!

[xiaotutu]

I really like your teaching style, thank you for making such great videos!

[cloudyreader]

Love the detailed explanations. Please keep up the good work. A small suggestion I might have is to increase the recording volume by a bit. Your work was impressive enough that I subscribed instantly :)

[codebitcookie]

Nice! Thanks a lot. Your explanations are great, keep it up.

[allaguiamira]

you made it look really simple, thank you so much for your effort it s helping a lot

[Shivam-slsp]

Great video! highly appreciate the effort man.

[Dev_Jet]

Thanks bro for this informative tutorial 🙏

[memoryleakerz]

I would love to know - you're basically using saveUninitialized: true - which saves sessions for unlogged users, how'd you deal with that feature off?

[rafi_]

thank you for explaining this. keep up.

[SuhweeSoftware]

Looks like this was the last video of the series, what about error handling though? I am getting stuck with exactly how to do error handling although the middleware section did help a lot, not sure how to go about error handling middleware, Error vs custom error, how to throw without crashing backend, like throw but it does a res.status, architecture, etc

[arielkashani]

Does express-sessions also store these sessions or i saw that people say it needs a storage like redis?

[codeandtalk]

Why we need cookie inside create method when we are not using any cookie?

[pozzleng]

you are robot? i pround of your typing bro

[korkut]

incorrect. sessions can store in browser too, even in JWT payload,