In this post, we will look at how to create and store the session of a logged in user as a cookie on the browser. We will build an application with a /signin and a /welcomero… See more

Before we begin, we need to install the libraries that we will use for this example: Let’s create an index.jsfile and initialize the HTTP server with the required routes: We can now de… See more

We will be creating a new session token every time a user signs in. The /signinroute will take the users credentials and log them in. In order to make this simple, we’re storing the … See more

Now that we have persisted the users session information on their client (in the form of the session_token cookie) and the server, we can write our /welcomehandler to handle u… See more

Since the expiry time of a session token is kept small, we need to issue a new token often to keep the user logged in. Of course, we cannot expect the user to login every time their t… See more