I am using cookie-session and passportjs to authenticate users in my express app. When I initialize my cookieSession like this: app.use(cookieSession({ maxAge: 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, keys: ['key1']...

I am studying back-end programming, specifically with Node.js and ExpressJS and currently it baffles me how does the "keys" prop of cookie-session library help us? What is the point of it? Have bee...

My understanding of passport.js so far is that passport.js serializes the user object and sends an ID every time to the client. I am just starting with it so sorry if it's a silly question: Instead...

I followed a course and it implemented user authentication using passport, passport-google-oauth20, cookie-session and it all works fine (login, logout, session handling) but when i send a request ...

I am trying to make a choice between storing user specific data in my MVC application either as identity claims or as session data to reduce the number and frequency of database round trips on requ...

I would like to have a "Stay signed in" option such as the one provided by Gmail. This way, the user can decide if they want to keep the session open upon opening a new browser session after previ...