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session-pouchdb-store

A PouchDB session store for express.js.

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Features

  • Compatible with PouchDB and CouchDB (or any database that uses the CouchDB API).
  • Realtime session data synchronization between processes (if PouchDB/CouchDB server is used)
  • Default in-memory PouchDB instance.
  • Custom PouchDB instance.
  • Scavenge and purge invalid/expired sessions.

Installation

npm install session-pouchdb-store --save

This will install session-pouchdb-store and add it to your application's package.json file.

Important Notes

If you use a remote PouchDB server, make sure the database exists prior to start your application/s

Basic Usage

Use with your express session middleware, like this:

const
	express = require("express"),
	session = require("express-session"),
	PouchSession = require("session-pouchdb-store");

let app = express();

app.use(session({
  secret: 'thisismysecret',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: true,
	store : new PouchSession()
}));

app.listen(3000, () => {
	console.log(`Server ${process.pid} started on port 3000`);
});

By default, PouchSession creates an in-memory database for testing purposes. You can pass your own instance or connect to a remote PouchDB/CouchDB server:

Remote PouchDB server

app.use(session({
  secret: 'thisismysecret',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: true,
	store : new PouchSession('http://pouchdbserver:port/sessions')
}));

Custom instance

const PouchDB = require('pouchdb');

let db = new PouchDB("sessions",{adapter:'leveldb'});
app.use(session({
  secret: 'thisismysecret',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: true,
	store : new PouchSession(db)
}));

Realtime synchronization

In order to synchronize session data, the current version of the store requires a remote PouchDB server, so multiple express processes can connect to the same database and perform synchronization.

API

new PouchSession(pouchInstance, options)

Creates a new store instance. The first argument can be one of the following:

  • null If no arguments is passed, a default in-memory instance is created.
  • PouchDB instance The PouchDB instance that will be used by the store.
  • URL string A URL string to a remote PouchDB/CouchDB server.

Options is an object that allows overriding some store behaviours:

  • maxIdle Max time in ms a session can go idle. When this time exceeds, the session is remove from the store cache. Note that a session can be idle and still be a valid session; session expiration is defined by the express-session module. The purpose of this parameter is to release from memory sessions that are not being used.
  • scavenge Interval time in ms that the store will search and release maxIdle sessions.
  • purge Interval time in ms that the the store will remove expired sessions from the database.

Default options are as follows:

Here is a list of all available options:

var options = {
	// Max idle time in ms
	maxIdle : 5*60*1000,
	// Scavenge period in ms
	scavenge : 1000,
	// Database purge period in ms
	purge : 5*60*1000
};

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