amount of documents =/= amount of users

[milanwdewaele]

hi.

i have a project where 10 people have access to. however after a while there were 2.5k documents inside the collection it needs.
and after refreshing they just keep on coming. did i do something wrong in my code?

var store = new MongoDBStore({
    uri: process.env.MONGO_URL,
    collection: 'v2Sessions'
  });

app.use(session({
    name: "Auth",
    secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET_KEY,
    resave: true,
    saveUninitialized: true,
    cookie: {
        maxage: 86400000
    },
    store: store
}));

kind regards
milan

[jrjake]

Whenever someone connects to your website, a session is created and assigned to them. Since you have saveUninitialized: true set, it will save all these empty sessions to the database. You should set saveUninitialized: false so that sessions will only be saved when it's user has logged in.

See https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-session#saveUninitialized for more information.

[vkarpov15]

@wfjake is right, a session isn't one-to-one to a user. And refreshing the page would create a new session if saveUninitialized: true is set.