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Let's follow the steps below to create a user session cookie in Express:

1. First, let's create a new route configuration called routes/session.js. This will contain all the logic needed to read and write our user session using cookies:

var express = require('express');var router = express.Router();router.all('*', function(req, res, next) {  var hasSession = req.cookies.session;  if (hasSession) {    req.session = hasSession;  } else {    var newSession = Math.floor(Math.random() *           1000000000);    res.cookie('session', newSession);    req.session = newSession;  }  console.log('Current Session: ', req.session);  next();});module.exports = router;

2. Next, let's add our new session route to our /app.js Express configuration. We will want the session ...