STORING_COOKIES.md

Storing cookies

discord-easy-dashboard now supports custom cookies storage ! It allows to store login informations, current settings, etc. You have to choose your storage system and implement it. This is a guide to make it easier.

/!\ This section of the documentation has been written for an older version of discord-easy-dashboard. The code may not work as expected. /!\

Setting up

Here we will use Redis as a storage for cookies, but you can use any database you want

1. Setup the Redis server on your PC. Click here for help

2. Install required dependencies using npm :

npm i redis connect-redis

3. Now you can setup the Redis client and session object

const redis = require('redis');
const connectRedis = require('connect-redis');
const session = require('express-session');

const RedisStore = connectRedis(session)
const redisClient = redis.createClient({
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 6379
})

redisClient.on('error', function (err) {
    console.log('Could not establish a connection with redis. ' + err);
});

redisClient.on('connect', function (err) {
    console.log('Connected to redis successfully');
});

const sessionObject = {
    store: new RedisStore({ client: redisClient }),
    secret: `discord-easy-dashboard-${Date.now()}-${Math.random().toString(36)}`,
    resave: false,
    saveUninitialized: false,
    cookie: {
        secure: false, // if true only transmit cookie over https
        httpOnly: false, // if true prevent client side JS from reading the cookie 
        maxAge: 1000 * 60 * 10 // session max age in miliseconds
    }
};

4. Finally, you can use the session object in your dashboard

client.dashboard = new Dashboard(client, {
 // Other options
    session: sessionObject,
});