express-cookies-sessions

• Using of cookies for authentication. The server will send a signed cookie to the client upon successful authentication, and expects the client to include the cookie with every subsequent request.

• Set up your Express application to send signed cookies.
• Set up your Express application to parse the cookies in the header of the incoming request messages

Using cookie-parser

• Install the cookie-parser Express middleware in your basic-auth folder by typing the following at the prompt:

     npm install cookie-parser --save

• Using Express sessions to track authenticated users so as to enable authenticated access to server resources.
  • Set up your Express server to use Express sessions to track authenticated users
  • Enable clients to access secure resources on the server after authentication.

Installing express-session

• Install express-session and session-file-store Node modules as follows:

     npm install express-session session-file-store --save