POST requests doesn't save session

Problem: when app.post('/user'), I am able to req.session.isLoggedIn = true but req.session.isLoggedIn is undefined in every place I call for it.

Expected: to save isLoggedIn to be able to use wherever I want.

Attempts:

• I already tried to req.session.save() after defining the session’s variable and didn’t work as well.

Code:

import express from 'express'
import session from 'express-session'
import cookieParser from 'cookie-parser'

const app = express()
const PORT = 3000

app.use(cookieParser())
app.use(session({secret: 'atomicbomb'}))

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('home ' + req.session.isLoggedIn) // always undefined
})

app.post('/user/authenticate', (req, res) => {
  req.session.isLoggedIn = true
  res.sendStatus(200)
})

app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`Listening at :${PORT}`)
})

There are a plenty of topics out there with different solutions, but none of them worked for me and that’s why I am creating this one.

[chiefGui]

Yo, @JoeWagner! It was my bad, actually. I’m so sorry for this.

Basically, what I was missing is: .withCredentials() to go with my request to the server. I’m using the fantastic superagent and it has an option built-in to deal with that.

So, problem solved—a mistake of mine.

Thanks!

[joewagner]

@chiefGui I’m not sure I understand your issue, but if you are using different domains then the cookie will not be sent. Cookies follow the same origin policy, you can read about this here

As I said above, The code you provided works perfectly well for me. If you want to provide code that demonstrates the issue, please include all versions and how you are running and testing. If you can do this someone here will definitely help you out.