How do server side authentication sessions work (express & cookies)

A walkthrough on how server side authentication sessions work using cookies.

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[aissa.bouguern]

I really like how you explained sessions without relying on "express-session" or any third-party library that abstracts the work done behind the scenes.
This helps beginners to adopt a nice and very simple mental model about what sessions are about.
Thank you so much!

[mossabDiae]

Cody, that was beautifully explained.
The note you added at the end about why JWT would be useful is a gem. Subscribed.

[SkySentry]

TYSM man. I've been struggling trying to understand how sessions work with cookies

[Goofy]

DUDE, this is how you explain something
Very well done, I just came from another video on the same topic, watched the whole thing and was still clueless.
Watched your video for like 3 minutes and had most of my questions answered, kept watching because of how well you explained.

Thank you, I'm subscribing.

[JoelGrayson]

Thank you for the simple explanation. Helped me a lot.

Tip: res.clearCookie() does the same thing as res.set('Set-Cookie', `session=null`)

[meepk]

I learned today that you can use the 'public' and 'private' keywords in TypeScript constructor parameters to auto-assign them. You don't even need to list them as members. It just adds them to the instance automatically. This is completely unrelated btw. Just wanted to share.

[devnarula]

exactly what I was looking for, appreciate such low level bare-bone session auth for understanding instead of just using some plugin which teaches no one anything!

[wjgzddb]

You sir deserve all the support, thank you so much, you pretty much saved me time. Great work

[cristianadejola]

Currently working same subject but with SQL database. Bit complicated and stressful. But your tutorial help a lot. Thanks ones again

[szgpocn]

appreciate dumming down the complex concept

[kosidinna_]

i know i'm late to this but as someone who is just getting round to backend stuff, this was very useful. Thank you

[marksheard]

Awesome stuff, Thank you Cody!!!
I have been using passport-local and figuring my way round. I highly recommend going through THIS BASIC overview before leaning on other modules\packages like passport-local and express-session.

[digvijaysingh]

simple and thorough. Glad you didn't use all those fancy abstractions.

[mayor]

Thank you so much. I had a hard time understanding how jwt does what it does. It is so much clearer now.

[raprincis]

Simple, helpful, and very instructive

[GilP-BM]

Love your content & input, thanks Cody!

[bentheafrican]

Nice tutorial
Looking forward to watch the next one.

[exe.mdnght]

I love this explanation ! thanks Cody !

[mferino]

Great video, thanks so much! I am about to build something using remix-auth (which is my first ever auth implementation) and wasn't clear on the cookie / session relationship. Most of the things I found just by browsing the web were like, the session is stored on the server and the cookie is stored on the client... thanks, that helps me not at all. This video cleared it all up and I now have a working mental model.

[cristianadejola]

just subscribe to your channel. you are really helping the junior Dev. Thanks so much