How to get cookie value in expressjs

Question

I\'m using cookie-parser, all the tutorial talk about how to set cookie and the time it expiries but no where teach us how to get the value of these cookie

Answer 1

For people that stumble across this question, this is how I did it:

You need to install the express cookie-parser middleware as it's no longer packaged with express.

npm install --save cookie-parser

Then set it up as such:

const cookieParser = require("cookie-parser");

const app = express();
app.use(cookieParser());

Then you can access the cookies from

req.cookies

Hope that help.