How to configure connect-mongo

Question

I am using "connect-mongo" node module to store session data in mongodb.

Below is my code related to configuring connect-mongo

const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
app.use(cookieParser());
const session = require('express-session');
const mongoStore = require('connect-mongo')(session);

app.use(session({
secret: "test",
store: new mongoStore({
  url: mongodbURL,
  collection : 'sessions',
  autoRemove: 'interval',
  autoRemoveInterval: 1 // In minutes. Default
}
}));

Once a user connects to root "/" url from browser, a record is getting inserted in database

 {
"_id": "EZ2sy6jHvnrlsyofqCrKVfPtp6hv5FX_",
"session": "{\"cookie\":{\"originalMaxAge\":null,\"expires\":null,\"httpOnly\":true,\"path\":\"/\"},\"name\":\"mongosession\"}",
"expires": ISODate("2016-06-14T15:19:15.548Z")
 }

My questions are

1. why is that originalMaxAge , expires keys of "session" are null and what needs to be modified so that these keys have a value.?

2. Since I have set autoRemoveInterval to 1 min , I was assuming that session values from database will be removed in 1 min , but that was not the case What needs to be modified to achieve that ?

Answer 1

1. Configure the cookie property of connect-session . By default, maxAge is null , making the cookie a (browser-)session cookie.
2. Set the ttl property of connect-mongo , which defaults to 14 days (which looks about right, judging by the timestamp in the expires property). autoRemoveInterval only configures how often connect-mongo should check if there are any sessions that should expire.