Did a lot. Tested SSE & started on socket.io, should prob kill s.io replace w/ ws

api/middleware/addIdToRequest.js

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+const crypto = require("crypto");
+const httpContext = require("express-http-context");
+
+const addIdToRequest = (req, res, next) => {
+  try {
+    crypto.randomBytes(16, (err, buf) => {
+      if (err) {
+        // log err
+        id = null;
+      }
+      id = buf.toString("hex");
+
+      httpContext.set("sessionId", id);
+      next();
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    // log err
+    httpContext.set("sessionId", null);
+    next();
+  }
+};
+
+module.exports = addIdToRequest;