connect-memcached

Memcached session store, using node-memcached for communication with cache server.

Installation

npm:

npm install connect-memcached express-session

yarn:

yarn add connect-memcached express-session

Example

var express = require("express"),
  session = require("express-session"),
  app = express(),
  MemcachedStore = require("connect-memcached")(session);

app.use(
  session({
    secret: "CatOnKeyboard",
    key: "test",
    proxy: "true",
    resave: false,
    saveUninitialized: false,
    store: new MemcachedStore({
      hosts: ["127.0.0.1:11211"],
      secret: "123, easy as ABC. ABC, easy as 123" // Optionally use transparent encryption for memcached session data
    })
  })
);

app.get("/", function(req, res) {
  if (req.session.views) {
    ++req.session.views;
  } else {
    req.session.views = 1;
  }
  res.send("Viewed <strong>" + req.session.views + "</strong> times.");
});

app.listen(9341, function() {
  console.log("Listening on %d", this.address().port);
});

Options

hosts (Optional) Memcached servers locations, can be string, array or hash. Default is 127.0.0.1:11211.
prefix (Optional) Prefix for each memcached key, in case you are sharing your memcached servers with something generating its own keys.
ttl (Optional) Default TTL parameter for the session data (in seconds).
secret (Optional) Secret used to encrypt/decrypt session contents. Setting it enables data encryption, which is handled by kruptein module.
algorithm (Optional) Cipher algorithm from crypto.getCiphers(). Default is aes-256-gcm.
hashing (Optional) Hash algorithm from crypto.getHashes(). Default is sha512.
... Rest of given options will be passed directly to the node-memcached and kruptein constructors, see their appropriate docs for extra configurability.

Upgrading to v2.x.x

When upgrading from pre v2 and using data encryption please flush all the session entries from memcached before rolling the update.

Sessions without data encryption are not affected.

Upgrading from v0.x.x -> v1.x.x

If You're upgrading from the pre v1.0.0 version of this library and use encryption for session data be sure to remove all session entries created with previous version.

Upgrading library without taking appropriate action will result in SyntaxError exceptions during JSON parsing of decoded entries.

Sessions without encryption are not affected.

Contributors

Big thanks for the contributors! See the actual list here!

License

(The MIT License)

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