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I’m doing my first project in node/express.
I’m looking to implement a data store and noticed that express is using redis as a session store. Does this mean that express installs redis by default? The reason I ask is that I pondering whether to install mongodb but if redis is already there to use, I’ll go with that.
New to node and express so any advice much appreciated.
Last time I checked, express used a built-in in-memory data store by default and connect-redis was a separate package.
express installs neither redis (the database executable) nor node-redis (redis API binding for node) nor connect-redis (session store for connect and express that uses redis).
redis is a very simple database compared to mongodb. Mongodb is a full document-oriented database and redis is just an in-memory key-value store.
Also, express relies on connect for most stuff including session management, and sessions are in fact provided by connect.