Can I write to the session on the server?

[marr]

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I am trying to use the session module inside a server plugin. I thought accessing the ssrContext.event.session might work, but it appears not to. Is something like this possible?

export default defineNuxtPlugin((nuxtApp) => {
  const { session } = nuxtApp.ssrContext?.event.context || {};
  if (session && session.user) {
    useState("user", () => session.user);
  }
});

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The docs say:

In theory you can manipulate this data on the server side if you want to. If you do this, the session will likely become invalid in the process, so proceed at your own risk!

Does that mean I can't write to the session inside nuxt middleware?

[BracketJohn]

The session is not defined within server-plugins: A session is always connected to an incoming request of a user. Inside a server plugin we do not have that request, so we do not have a session (:

You can basically use the session everywhere where you have access to an event: H3Event 🎊 This is the case in endpoints and in server-middleware.

Hope that helps - let me know if there's anything else (:

[bissolli]

You can basically use the session everywhere where you have access to an event: H3Event 🎊 This is the case in endpoints and in server-middleware.

@BracketJohn I am trying to access the event.context.session from my server-middleare but it comes empty. Am I missing anything?

Look at this example:

This is a simple server/middleware followed by a server/api.