How to access a browser cookie in a react app

Question

This question is a bit popular but Im not having such luck. Im mostly a backend person so Im learning as I go along.

I have a cookie named connect.sid and v

Answer 1

I know that answer is not exactly what you want, but if you just want to authorize someone on the serverside i have an easy solution. Just add

credentials: 'same-origin'

to your AJAX request. If you have done that the cookie will get send with your connect.sid to the server and the server will handle the authentification for you.