Mini-session NPM

mini-session

A mini session module for Node.js

Description

mini-session is a simple module for Node.js, it's data storaged in memery, so if web-server process restart, session will lost. So, this module is for little site and not too much data to storage in the session.

Install

Before use mini-session, u should install "Cookies" package first.

npm install cookies

then

npm install mini-session

Demo

var http = require("http");
var Cookies = require("Cookies");
var Session = require("mini-session");

http.createServer(function(req, res){
	var cookies = new Cookies(req, res);
	var session = new Session(cookies);//init session with cookies
	
	console.log("sessionId = " + session.sessionId);

	session.set("userId", 123);
	session.set("userName", "Jhon");
	console.log("after set, session data is :");
	session.dump();

	console.log("session.get(\"userId\") = " + session.get("userId"));

	session.abandon();
	console.log("after abandon, session data is :");
	session.dump();

	res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type":"text/html"});
	res.end("<h1>session test done!</h1>");
}).listen(8500);

console.log("Server started : http://localhost:8500");

console output :

Server started : http://localhost:8500

sessionId = f4e4f42b130bfb4fb663ee67122c02b8

after set, session data is :
{ count: 1,
  f4e4f42b130bfb4fb663ee67122c02b8: { count: 2, userId: 123, userName: 'Jhon' } }

session.get("userId") = 123

after abandon, session data is :
{ count: 0 }