express-session is not saving user's session data

Question

express-session is refusing to save the session data for my users.

It is saving the session cookie, but the data is not persisting.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '15 at 23:39

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It seems you are setting the following (line #31):

req.session.user = user;

But inside the base '/' route (line #21) you are checking for :

req.session.userName

Which doesn't exist, so the if statement will fail. To double check, you can always log the req.session to console to check what data is getting stored.

answered Dec 23 '15 at 23:39

Ash

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Plus that I made the same mistake when assigning `stat` on the same line. – robbie Dec 23 '15 at 23:47
Easy mistake to make, and it can be a hard one to track down :) – Ash Dec 23 '15 at 23:54

express-session is not saving user's session data

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