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Persisting your user sessions makes sure that session-related behaviors, such as user authentication, don't need to be unnecessarily repeated by the user every time your web server restarts. Adding a store is done by importing the store adapter, configuring it for your application, and providing it to express-session using the store property:

var MyExpressSessionStore = require('my-express-session-store')(storeConfig);app.use(session({  secret: process.env.cookieSecret,  resave: false,  saveUninitialized: true,  store: MyExpressSessionStore}));

There are dozens of available express-session-compatible store adapters available on npm. You can see a comprehensive list of available options, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, CouchDB, ...