Use redis as session store in production.

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Use redis as session store in production. #74

Closed hiyaryan closed 7 months ago

hiyaryan commented 7 months ago

This PR updates the session store to use Redis in production.

The first commit does the following,

Adds redis and connect-redis as dependencies.
Creates store.js that connects to a session store based on the node environment using a connectStore function.
Adds the redis configuration to the connectStore function.
Requires additional environment variables, REDIS_HOST and REDIS_PORT.

hiyaryan commented 7 months ago

This PR resolves the error raised in #70

Warning: connect.session() MemoryStore is not designed for a production environment, as it will leak memory, and will not scale past a single process.

It was discovered that the default session store, MemoryStore, was being used but is not designed for production. This PR resolves this warning with redis, establishing it as the session store for the application.