Browser sessions in AdonisJS

With the growing number of devices and browsers available these days, it's not uncommon for users to be logged in to your application on multiple devices/browsers. You might need to allow users to keep track of their browsers sessions and even ways to log out from certain browsers or all browsers. In this course, you are going to learn how to implement browser (or log in) sessions in AdonisJS.

What you'll learn

How to track and save users' browser sessions
Display users' browser sessions
How to log out from a specific browser session
How to log out from all other browser sessions
How to ensure only one login session for users
How to log out from all sessions after password update or reset

Browser sessions

Tracking browser sessions

6m 43s

In this lesson, you are going to learn how to track users browser sessions by saving them in the database.

Displaying browser sessions

7m 57s

In this lesson, we cover how to display users' browser sessions. You will also learn our to parse user agent.

Tracking last active at

4m 35s

In this lesson, we cover how to track when login sessions are last active at.

Log out from a specific browser session

9m 46s

Now, let's look at how to log users out from specific browser sessions.

Log out from other browser sessions

3m 21s

There are times users would want to log out from all but their current session. In this lesson, you'll learn how to do that.

Log out from all browser sessions

2m 23s

In cases where users account might have been compromised, the users might want to reset their passwords and also log out from all existing sessions so as to kick the attacker out. In this lesson, you'll learn how to allow users to log out from all their login sessions.

Enforcing only one login session

2m 13s

In this lesson, you'll learn how to enforce only one login session for users.

Fixing the standard log out functionality

1m 54s

To wrap up this course, let's fix a tiny bug in our application which has to do with session records not being deleted when the standard log out functionality is used.

Hi, I'm Chimezie Enyinnaya, your teacher.

I’m a self-taught software developer based in Lagos, Nigeria, with over 8 years of experience. In the last couple of years, I've been doing more teaching because I enjoy sharing my knowledge so that others can benefit from it. Come along as I teach you all I know about AdonisJS, Node.js, and JavaScript at large!