nodejs chat server persistant across the pages

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I have to create a chat server page chat.html using node.js. I have used a a couple of modules like http://chat.nodejs.org. The problem is when I moved from chat.html page to some other page of my application like about.html and come back to chat.html I need to login again and it consider me a fresh joiner.

Is there any way/module using which I can persist the chat.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '12 at 06:24

A simple approach would be to use sessions, to identify the user and load their chat history from a database.

You could also consider just storing their history into a cookie/localStorage and thus save some load on the server, unless you need to identify or store the history anyway.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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You'll want to set up sessions in your application. Rather than describe that here, I'll link this popular answer:

Managing Sessions in Node.js?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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