Error: req.flash() requires sessions

Question

I\'m new to node and I\'m pretty sure I\'ve set up the middle ware and express to use flash messaging however I still get the error:

Error: req.flash() requires se

Answer 1

In my case the issue was that Redis was not listening. I found that out by enabling the logErrors property:

new RedisStore({
  host: 'localhost',
  port: '6379',
  logErrors: true,
});

Which resulted in messages like these:

Warning: connect-redis reported a client error: Error: Redis connection to localhost:6379 failed - connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:6379