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Google Cloud Firestore Session

An express session store backed by Google Cloud Firestore.

@google-cloud/connect-firestore is an express session store backed by Google Cloud Firestore.

Note: Cloud Firestore is a persistent, distributed, transactional database. Often, it's more appropriate to choose a different storage solution for sessions such as Memcache or Redis as their designs offer much faster operation in this use case.

A comprehensive list of changes in each version may be found in the CHANGELOG.

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

Quickstart
Samples
Versioning
Contributing
License

Quickstart

Before you begin

Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
Enable the Google Cloud Firestore Session API.
Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install @google-cloud/connect-firestore

Using the client library

const {Firestore} = require('@google-cloud/firestore');
const express = require('express');
const session = require('express-session');
const app = express();

const {FirestoreStore} = require('@google-cloud/connect-firestore');

app.use(
  session({
    store: new FirestoreStore({
      dataset: new Firestore(),
      kind: 'express-sessions',
    }),
    secret: 'my-secret',
    resave: false,
    saveUninitialized: true,
  })
);

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  if (!req.session.views) {
    req.session.views = 0;
  }
  const views = req.session.views++;
  res.send(`Views ${views}`);
});

app.listen(4830, () => {
  console.log('Example app listening on port 4830!');
});

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. Each sample's README.md has instructions for running its sample.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Quickstart	source code

The Google Cloud Firestore Session Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Supported Node.js Versions

Our client libraries follow the Node.js release schedule. Libraries are compatible with all current active and maintenance versions of Node.js.

Client libraries targeting some end-of-life versions of Node.js are available, and can be installed via npm dist-tags. The dist-tags follow the naming convention legacy-(version).

Legacy Node.js versions are supported as a best effort:

Legacy versions will not be tested in continuous integration.
Some security patches may not be able to be backported.
Dependencies will not be kept up-to-date, and features will not be backported.

Legacy tags available

legacy-8: install client libraries from this dist-tag for versions compatible with Node.js 8.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be General Availability (GA). This means it is stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible ways unless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests against GA libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

Please note that this README.md, the samples/README.md, and a variety of configuration files in this repository (including .nycrc and tsconfig.json) are generated from a central template. To edit one of these files, make an edit to its templates in directory.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE

Usage no npm install needed!