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

hope this will help you

const app = require('express')();
app.use('/', (req, res) => {
    var cookie = getcookie(req);
    console.log(cookie);
});

function getcookie(req) {
    var cookie = req.headers.cookie;
    // user=someone; session=QyhYzXhkTZawIb5qSl3KKyPVN (this is my cookie i get)
    return cookie.split('; ');
}

output

['user=someone', 'session=QyhYzXhkTZawIb5qSl3KKyPVN']