How to end a session in ExpressJS

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Stephen picture Stephen · Apr 6, 2011 · Viewed 117.6k times · Source

I feel like this has to be buried somewhere in the documentation, but I can't find it.

How do you close or end or kill (whatever) a session in ExpressJS?

Answer

Brad picture Brad · Apr 14, 2015

Express 4.x Updated Answer

Session handling is no longer built into Express. This answer refers to the standard session module: https://github.com/expressjs/session

To clear the session data, simply use:

req.session.destroy();

The documentation is a bit useless on this. It says:

Destroys the session, removing req.session, will be re-generated next request. req.session.destroy(function(err) { // cannot access session here })

This does not mean that the current session will be re-loaded on the next request. It means that a clean empty session will be created in your session store on next request. (Presumably the session ID isn't changing, but I have not tested that.)

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