access session data from ejs view

1app.use(function(req, res, next) {
2  res.locals.user = req.session.user;
3  next();
4});
5
6/*
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9You can use res.locals to expose particular data to all templates.
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11In your situation, you could add the following middleware to Express:
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14This will make a user variable available in all your templates.
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16You do need to make sure that you add that middleware after req.session has been set (which is usually after express-session has been added to the middleware chain).
17*/