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Express Sesssion Middleware with Typescript Build Error
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Description
Following this tutorial leads to a compilation error.
A user named Goldjee wrote a fix and posted it in a comment.
All you need to do is change:
declare module "http" {
interface IncomingMessage {
session: Session & {
authenticated: boolean
}
}
}
to
declare module 'http' {
interface IncomingMessage {
cookieHolder?: string;
session: Session & Partial<session.SessionData>;
}
}
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked tutorial and the referenced comment, then locate the TypeScript declaration shown in the tutorial. Update the session declaration to match the provided replacement and verify that the tutorial no longer produces the reported compilation error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- express, typescript
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100