Express Mongoose Store
express-mongoose is a MongoDB session store backed by MongooseJS. It differs from other MongoDB session stores because it accepts a current Mongoose connection, so you don't have to configure separate connection for your session store if you are already using Mongoose for your backend. It is meant to give a MongoDB session store with minimal config.express-mongoose only supports ```express > 4.0.0```
Installation
```` $ npm install express-mongoose-store ````Options
``ttl`` - how long a session should last from last page view. Defaults to 1 day.
``cache_ttl`` - how long a session will be cached in memoryUsage
```` var session = require('express-session'); var mongoose = require('mongoose');mongoose.connect();
var MS = require('express-mongoose-store')(session, mongoose); app.use(session({ secret: 'keyboard cat', store: new MS({ttl: 600000}) }); //10 minute sessions ````
Custom Model Name
By default the model name used for storing sessions is "sessions", however, you can customize this by passing a modelName argument to the store like so:```` app.use(session({ secret: 'keyboard cat', store: new MS({modelName: 'myAppsessions' ttl: 600000}) }); ````
Or if you want the session store to keep your Mongoose connection alive as well you can do the following:
```` var session = require('express-session'); var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect();
var MS = require('express-mongoose-store')(session, mongoose); var mongoosestore = new MS();
setInterval(function(){ mongoosestore.keepAlive(); }, 20000);
app.use(session({ secret: 'keyboard cat', store: mongoosestore }); ````
Essentially if your server has a lull in activity this protects your mongoose connection from timing out and having to reconnect, which in express can cause you to throw an error to a user.
Test
Running tests requires a MongoDB instance running on 127.0.0.1:27017 with no authentication. It will also delete anything in a database called "test" in the collection called "sessions" so if that is not desired, you need to modify the tests or not run them.```` npm install npm test ````
