How to end a session in ExpressJS

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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

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From http   expressjs com api html cookieSession  To clear a cookie simply assign the session to null before responding   req session   null

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The question didn t clarify what type of session store was being used   Both answers seem to be correct   For cookie based sessions   From http   expressjs com api html cookieSession  req session   null    Deletes the cookie    For Redis  etc based sessions   req session destroy    Deletes the session in the database

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As mentioned in several places  I m also not able to get the req session destroy   function to work correctly   This is my work around    seems to do the trick  and still allows req flash to be used  req session         If you delete or set req session   null    seems then you can t use req flash

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req session destroy       The above did not work for me so I did this    req session cookie expires   new Date   getTime      By setting the expiration of the cookie to the current time  the session expired on its own

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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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use    delete req session yoursessionname

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Never mind  it s req session destroy

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Session destroy callback      Destroys the session and will unset the req session property  Once complete  the callback will be invoked      8595  Secure way   8595     req session destroy  err    gt      res redirect         will always fire after session is destroyed          8595  Unsecure way   8595     req logout    res redirect         can be called before logout is done

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Using req session   null   won t actually delete the session instance  The most proper solution would be req session destroy     but this is essentially a wrapper for delete req session    https   github com expressjs session blob master session session js  Session prototype destroy   function fn     delete this req session    this req sessionStore destroy this id  fn     return this

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