Why are we not auto setting sid cookie?

[Goutam192002]

Noticed that we do not set sid cookie automatically. Would like to understand the idea behind doing this?

Shouldn't there be a way to automatically check if sid cookie exists, set req.session else generate a new session and set the cookie?

Next also supports express style middlewares (https://nextjs.org/docs/middleware) Can we leverage that?

[hoangvvo]

I intentionally do not set sid cookie if no session value is set. The reason is that, if the session is empty while the sid cookie is set, we would have a redundant database call to query the session.

[Goutam192002]

There are a lot of situations where a developer might need to use the session for analysing traffic..number of sessions per day, even though the session might be empty..atleast a page load might have happened.

[hoangvvo]

There are a lot of situations where a developer might need to use the session for analysing traffic..number of sessions per day, even though the session might be empty..atleast a page load might have happened.

In that case, can't you just set the session?

req.session.page_loaded = true