Connect Redis

connect-redis is a Redis session store backed by node_redis, and is insanely fast :). Requires redis >= 2.0.0 for the SETEX command.

Note: connect-redis >= 2.0.0 only supports express >= 4.0.0. Use connect-redis 1.4.7 for express 3.x.

Installation

  $ npm install connect-redis

Options

A Redis client is required. An existing client can be passed directly using the client param or created for you using the host, port, or socket params.

• client An existing client created using redis.createClient()
• host Redis server hostname
• port Redis server portno
• socket Redis server unix_socket

The following additional params may be included:

• ttl Redis session TTL (expiration) in seconds
• db Database index to use
• pass Password for Redis authentication
• prefix Key prefix defaulting to "sess:"
• unref Set true to unref the Redis client. Warning: this is an experimental feature.

Any options not included in this list will be passed to the redis createClient() method directly.

Usage

Due to express >= 4 changes, we now need to pass express-session to the function connect-redis exports in order to extend session.Store:

var session = require('express-session');
var RedisStore = require('connect-redis')(session);

app.use(session({
    store: new RedisStore(options),
    secret: 'keyboard cat'
}));

License

MIT