Express doesn't set a cookie

Question

I have problem with setting a cookies via express. I\'m using Este.js dev stack and I try to set a cookie in API auth /login route. Here is the cod

Answer 1

I had the same issue with cross origin requests, here is how I fixed it. You need to specifically tell browser to allow credentials. With axios, you can specify it to allow credentials on every request like axios.defaults.withCredentials = true however this will be blocked by CORS policy and you need to specify credentials is true on your api like

const corsOptions = {
    credentials: true,
    ///..other options
  };

app.use(cors(corsOptions));

Update: this only work on localhost For detail answer on issues in production environment, see my answer here