Express Session Template

This is a simple example which uses LinkedIn's user authentication API to grant access to a user. It uses session cookies to manage the user's state.

Thanks to https://www.section.io/engineering-education/session-management-in-nodejs-using-expressjs-and-express-session/

Prerequisites

• Node v16 or above.
• .env file in project directory (see .env.example for an example).
  • If you need OIDC credentials, see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/shared/authentication/client-credentials-flow
• PostgreSQL database for session state.
  • Alternately, just use the default store instead which will store sessions in memory.

Available commands

• npm run dev Start the server in watch mode.
• npm run start Start the server.