req.session is undefined using express-session
You will also see req.session === undefined
if your Redis connection is invalid or missing!
I don't see anywhere in your code where connection info is being passed when configuring the session.
To get session data
first , You have to initialize express-session with
app.use(session({ resave: true ,secret: '123456' , saveUninitialized: true}));
then When you want to put something in the session
req.session.firstName = 'Aniruddha';
req.session.lastName = 'Chakraborty';
Then you can check without errors
console.log('req.session: '+req.session.firstName);
Note: This is express-sessions work!
Once you mount a router onto an Express app, any subsequently declared middleware on that app won't get called for any requests that target the router.
So if you have this:
app.use(router)
app.use(session(...));
The session middleware won't get called for any requests that get handled by router
(even if you declare the routes that the router should handle at some later point). For that, you need to change the order:
app.use(session(...));
app.use(router);
An additional issue is that you're exporting router
, which should probably be app
(which is the instance that "holds" all the middleware, routers, etc):
module.exports = app;
This problem occurred with me while trying to maintain req.session
object in my app. I was setting req.session.user
in a login route, but was not able to get the same outside that route.
console.log(req.session)
// undefined
Since there was no use of cookie
in my app, I removed it.
Before removing cookie variable:
app.use(
session({
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: true,
secret: "anyrandomstring",
cookie: { secure: true},
})
);
After removing cookie variable:
app.use(
session({
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: true,
secret: "anyrandomstring",
})
);
This resolved my issue. And now I was able to access req.session
from anywhere in the app.
console.log(req.session)
/* Session{
......
......
}
*/
Note: This issue might also occurs if you have initialized
app.use(session({...}))
at bottom of the file. Try to bring it to the top.
Why this happens: Click here