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I am building an integration with Express Session and I am trying to authenticate the user in a separate webhook. So I need a way to update the user session outside of the request since it would be a different request.

What I did is I passed the session ID to the new request, and use MongoClient to update the session in the database. I remember Express Session only stores the ID on the client-side and the data is store on the database, so I assume updating the database would do it. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I can clearly see that the session on MongoDB is all updated but I kept getting the outdated data in req.session.data.

Here's what I've done

So the first thing I tried is to use the req.session.reload() method like these:

Updating express-session sessions

change and refresh session data in Node.js and express-session

But it is still giving me outdated data as if the function did nothing (it did print out logs so I assume it did run).

I tried using this that uses store.get() method from Express Session but it is giving me undefined session.

Express load Session from Mongo with session_id

So as a last resort I use MongoClient to get the session data directly and update the session with the data obtained. I use async for the route handler and await the MongoClient to get the data. It doesn't wait for the await and just kept throwing undefined. I thought it's my code that's wrong but I am able to get user data with the code and it did wait for the MongoClient to get the data, but somehow it is not working for session data.

Here's part of my code: