I know this question has been asked several times. However, none of the answers I've read has solved my question.
Many of them were outdated for express v4, as express-session is currently a separate module. Those question/answers are here:
- 'session' is undefined when using express / redis for session store
- req.session undefined in Express.js
- nodejs express req.session undefined
Other questions are updated, however the solution given doesn't fix my problem. Those question/answers are here:
Most of the solutions are the sequence of middlewares when configuring the app. I've tried different options and I doesn't find the correct way to do it. Maybe it's just that.
In other solution, someone says that session middleware cannot be called, because if it were, req.session would be defined. I've used middlewares just before an after app.use(session({...})), and checked that both get called.
I've also found in this issue someone saying that he gets req.session undefined when the store disconnects. I'm using the default store so far. Could this be the problem?
I'm getting this error:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'destroy' of undefined
It breaks just when I try to logout a session with req.session.destroy() at login.js (see code below)
My code
server.js
const express = require('express');
const session = require('express-session');
const mongo = require('mongodb');
const passport = require('passport');
const path = require('path');
const routes = require('./app/routes');
const login = require('./app/routes/login.js');
const app = express();
app.use(session({
secret: 'key',
resave: false,
saveUninitialized: true,
}));
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
app.use('/public', express.static(path.normalize('./public')));
app.use(routes);
app.use(login);
app.set('view engine', 'pug');
const MongoClient = mongo.MongoClient;
MongoClient.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/myapp')
.then((db) => {
// Link the database through the app. It will be available in the req.app object
app.db = db;
console.log('App listening on port ' + process.env.PORT);
app.listen(process.env.PORT);
})
.catch((err) => {
console.log('There was an error connecting to the database.');
console.log(err);
});
module.exports = app; // For testing
login.js
const express = require('express');
const passport = require('passport');
const router = new express.Router();
// Other login logic here
router.get('/logout', (res, req) => {
req.session.destroy((err) => {
req.redirect('/');
});
});
module.exports = router;
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