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Javier Manzano
Javier Manzano

Reputation: 4821

Set a cookie value in Node.js

I'm developing a website with node.js and express. How can I set a cookie value?

Upvotes: 30

Views: 64639

Answers (2)

MT.
MT.

Reputation: 1925

You could just use the response object that express provides to set your cookies.

You can find detailed information on how to do that at: http://expressjs.com/en/api.html#res.cookie

Upvotes: 5

Jonathan Lonowski
Jonathan Lonowski

Reputation: 123423

As Express is built on Connect, you can use the cookieParser middleware and req.cookies to read and res.cookie() to write cookies:

// configuration
app.use(express.cookieParser());
// or  `express.cookieParser('secret')` for signed cookies

// routing
app.get('/foo', function (req, res) {
    res.cookie('bar', 'baz');
    // ...
});

app.get('/bar', function (req, res) {
    res.send(req.cookies.bar);
});

[Update]

As of Express 4.0, Connect will no longer be included with Express and the default middleware have been moved into their own packages, including cookie-parser.

Upvotes: 43

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