Session Management Patterns
Implement secure session management with tokens, cookies, and rotation.
- Difficulty
- advanced
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Sessions: Use httpOnly, secure, SameSite cookies. Rotate session ID on privilege change. Implement absolute and idle timeouts. Store sessions server-side (Redis). Hash session IDs before storage. Invalidate on logout. Limit concurrent sessions if needed.
Use When
- User authentication
- Stateful web applications
- Admin dashboards
- Multi-device access
Skip When
- Stateless APIs
- JWT-only authentication
- Machine-to-machine auth
Session Management Patterns
Implement secure session management with tokens, cookies, and rotation.