Flatware::Session

Session Middleware for Flatiron.js.

Supports Memory Store and Redis.

Install

Add "flatware-session" to the dependencies of your package.json manifest.

$ npm install

Add it to your server:

var Session = require('flatware-session');
 
var server = union.createServer({
  before: [
    Session(),
    // ...
  ]
});

Customize It

Options in the constructor:

 
var Session = require('flatware-session');
 
Session(sessionCookieName, store);

sessionCookieName defaults to "sid".

store can be require('flatware-session/memory_store'), require('flatware-session/redis_store') or any other conforming store.

Example using Redis:

var Session = require('flatware-session');
 
var cookieName = 'my-sid';
var storeOptions = {
    timeout: 2 * 60 * 60 // 2 hours
  , pass   : "mypasswordforaccessingredis",
  , prefix : "my-session-key-prefix-in-redis" // defaults to "--session-"
};
 
var store = require('flatware-session/redis_store')(storeOptions);
 
var server = union.createServer({
  before: [
    Session(cookieName),
    // ...
  ]
});