- [Narrator] With our little visit counter in place,…let's use the debugger to inspect…what's actually going on in our request.session object.…For that, I want to set a break point on line 38.…You do that by simply moving the mouse…to the spot left of the line number…and then click on it so we have a break point.…Now, here, and I start the debugger.…And I head over to the website and just load…the page once.…
If we now hover over request session,…we see that we already have a session object here…that holds the cookie, it holds the session ID…and also the properties that we set before.…And now let's use the debugger to step over…to the next line of code and if we now hover over…the session object, we already see…that there is also now this visits property set.…So let's stop the debugger now…and remove the break point and I will now simply start…the application and I will reload…it a few more times.…
And to see what actually now happened…on the database I head over to MongoDB Atlas…and now when we refresh our list of collections,…
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2/7/2019- Creating a template engine
- Using MongoDB and Mongoose for user management
- Authenticating and authorizing users
- Adding cookies and sessions to Express
- Creating a login form with Passport
- Handling file uploads
- Storing and serving images
- Deploying an Express application
- Securing an Express application
- Running behind a web server
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