How to use cookie-session for node expresss.js

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As express-session is not ready to work on production environments unless you change the module to something like redisStorage, I decided to go for cookie-session.

The documentation doesn't seem to be very clear to me. It says

Other options are passed to cookies.get() and cookies.set()

What is cookies there?
Does it mean we have to use set to set the options we want?

I was trying to use cookieSession as express-session, but it seems that's not the way it works:

var cookieSession = require('cookie-session');

app.use(cookieSession({
  maxAge: 20*60*1000, //20 mins
  httpOnly: true,
  secure: true,
  secureProxy: true,
  keys: ['key1', 'key2']
}));

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:52:00Z

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I was in fact doing it in the right way. But because the documentation can be confusing I was not certain.

This answer helped me to understand what documentation really means.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:52

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