Managing Sessions in NodeJS?

Question

What is the best way to manage session variables in nodejs? is there a lib?

Answer 1

nodejs provides a basic http API. http is stateless, and ideas of sessions and session variables exist in framework/protocols build on top of http. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_%28computer_science%29

Take a look at http://geddyjs.org/ or http://expressjs.com/ as examples of web frameworks built with node that provide sessions.

Answer 2

You can do that very easily using:

• Connect: http://senchalabs.github.com/connect/

  Connects is like Rack in Ruby. It gives you an extra layer where you can "play" with authentication, sessions, cookies, among others.

Other option is to use frameworks:

• Express.js: http://expressjs.com/

  It seems to be the most used node.js framework. Is like Sinatra for Ruby and runs on top of connect.

• Geddy: http://geddyjs.org/

  If you want to do more complex WebApps, Geddy is the one you choose. Is like Rails for Ruby.