Setting Up Sessions with NestJS, Passport, and Redis

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Redis

Redis is an open source in-memory data structure project implementing a distributed, in-memory key-value database with optional durability.
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Lastly, I'll be using docker and a docker-compose file to run a Redis instance for the session storage and to allow for running a redis-cli to be able to query the redis instance ran by Docker.

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JSON Web Token

JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.
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If you're here, you're either one of the avid readers of my, just stumbling about dev.to looking for something interesting to read, or you're searching for how to implement sessions with Passport and NestJS. Nest's own docs do a pretty good job of showing how to set up the use of JWTs with Passport, but are lacking when it comes to how to use sessions. Maybe you want to use a session store because of supporting some legacy software. Maybe it's because JWTs bring too much complexity with scope. Maybe it's because you're looking for an easier way to set up refresh tokens. Whatever the case, this article is going to be for you.

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Insomnia REST

The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client ð´
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I'm also going to be not using an HTTP client like Postman or Insomnia, but using cURL instead. I lke living in the terminal as much as I can, as it gives me immediate feedback between my terminals. Feel free to use whichever you prefer, but the code snippets will be curls.

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tmux

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a...
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And speaking of immediate feedback, I'm also going to be using tmux, which is a terminal multiplexer, to allow me to run multiple terminals at a time within the same window and logical grouping. This allows me to keep a single terminal window up and view my server logs, docker-compose instance and/or logs, and make curls without having to alt-tab to change views. Very handy, and very customizable.

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cURL Landing Page
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cURL

cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data...
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I'm also going to be not using an HTTP client like Postman or Insomnia, but using cURL instead. I lke living in the terminal as much as I can, as it gives me immediate feedback between my terminals. Feel free to use whichever you prefer, but the code snippets will be curls.

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