Express.js - set session expiration time

In this article, we would like to show you how to set session expiration time in Express.js.

Quick solution:

app.use(
    session({
        // ...
        cookie: {
            maxAge: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7, // 7 days (in milliseconds)
        }
        // ...
    })
);

Practical example

In this section, we present a practical of how to use cookie maxAge to set session expiration time to 7 days in a simple Express.js application.

const express = require('express');          // npm install express
const session = require('express-session');  // npm install express-session

const app = express();

app.use(
    session({
        secret: 'session-secret-here',
        resave: false,
        saveUninitialized: true,
        cookie: {
            maxAge: 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7, // 7 days (in milliseconds)
        },
    })
);

// ...

app.listen(8080, () => console.log('Server started on port 8080.'));

References

1. Express session middleware