diff --git a/client/styles/abstracts/_variables.scss b/client/styles/abstracts/_variables.scss
index 0a70ada0..a41a2097 100644
--- a/client/styles/abstracts/_variables.scss
+++ b/client/styles/abstracts/_variables.scss
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ $light-primary-text-color: #333;
 $light-secondary-text-color: #6b6b6b;
 $light-inactive-text-color: #b5b5b5;
 $light-background-color: #fdfdfd;
-$light-sidebar-background: $white;
 
 $light-button-background-color: #f4f4f4;
 $light-button-color: $black;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9fc1ef6b..dca229de 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
     "bson-objectid": "^1.1.4",
     "classnames": "^2.2.5",
     "codemirror": "^5.14.2",
-    "connect-mongo": "^1.0.0",
+    "connect-mongo": "^1.2.0",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.1",
     "dotenv": "^2.0.0",
     "escape-string-regexp": "^1.0.5",
diff --git a/server/server.js b/server/server.js
index d9a8ea9d..99879244 100644
--- a/server/server.js
+++ b/server/server.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import mongoose from 'mongoose';
 import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
 import cookieParser from 'cookie-parser';
 import session from 'express-session';
-const MongoStore = require('connect-mongo/es5')(session);
+const MongoStore = require('connect-mongo')(session);
 import passport from 'passport';
 import path from 'path';