ctx is empty, ctx.session is undefined

[jrydberg]

First time trying out blitz.js - looks awesome. But ran into a little snag when trying to implement login using firebase. It looks like Ctx is {} in my mutation. Which means that I cannot create a new session since ctx.session is undefined. Anyone have any clue to why this could happen?

Could be related to that I'm playing around with a blitz.config.ts

[flybayer]

So you removed sessionMiddleware and are trying to use Firebase instead? ctx.session is added by sessionMiddleware. So if you don't use that, you will need to implement your own ctx.session. Probably you are better off to use Blitz sessions instead of firebase :)

Is the Blitz built in sessions not working for something that makes you want to use Firebase?

[jrydberg]

I was using the wrong version of Blitz :). Now with 0.35 that properly supports blitz.config.ts things work a lot better.

I'm using Firestore for my application already, and I would like to stick to using one database. The builtin session mgmt seems sweet, but I don't wanna have another database just for that.

[flybayer]

Ok, then another option is customizing sessionMiddleware to use the firestore database for sessions: https://blitzjs.com/docs/session-management#customize-session-persistence-and-database-access