Stack: Mongo/Redis, Express and Node
I have my sessions set as most other Stack Overflow posts point to. I am using Redis as my session store. This is my session setup:
app.use(session({
resave: true,
saveUninitialized: false,
cookie: {
maxAge: 60 * 1000 * 60 * 24 * 30 // 30 days
},
secret: config.sessionSecret,
store: new RedisStore({
url: config.redisDB,
auto_reconnect: true
})
}));
This comes before app.use(flash()); in my app.js file.
The only thing I can think of is I need sessions set up inside my routes file. But it seems wrong to set up sessions that many times. I do require my routes below where I setup sessions and flash.
Any idea what is going on here?
Error message:
req.flash() requires sessions
Stack trace points to line 55 of app.js which is res.locals.error = req.flash("error");
That comes before I call my routes but after I set my sessions. If I comment it out then it points to the route called. In this case the index route.
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
res.render('index.ejs'); // load the index.ejs file
});
If I change the res.render out for res.send then it sends the message with no errors.
