Flask permanent session: where to define them?

Question

By default, Flask uses volatile sessions, which means the session cookie is set to expire when browser closes. In order to use permanent sessions, which will use a cookie

Answer 1

I'm surprised no on has answered this question. It seems like there should be some type of config variable SESSION_PERMANENT = True. But unfortunately there isn't. As you mentioned this is the best way to do it.

@app.before_request
def make_session_permanent():
    session.permanent = True