Session Cookie Authentication in Node.js (With Complete Examples)
In this post, we will learn how to authenticate users using session cookies in a Node.js server application. When a user logs into our application, we need to know who they are across all our HTTP methods and routes. One way to do this is to store the users “session”. A session is started once a user logs in, and expires some time after that. Each logged in user has some reference to the session (called a cookie), which they send with their requests....