React Cookie + ReactJS: How to set expiration time for a cookie?

Question

In my ReactJS project, currently I am saving the cookie like cookie.save('token', received_token, { path: '/'} ); and retrieving it from the local storage like so: cookie.load('token');.

So I was wondering, is a way to set expiration time when .save() the token received, and once expired, automatically have it remove itself from the local storage?

Thank you and will accept the answer with vote up.

Answer 1

You can pass maxAge or expires in options as 3rd parameter in cookie.save function

Syntax:

reactCookie.save(name, val, [opt])

Example:

// maxAge Example
reactCookie.save("token", "token-value", {
   maxAge: 3600 // Will expire after 1hr (value is in number of sec.)
});

// Expires Example
var tomorrow = new Date();
tomorrow.setDate(today.getDate()+1);

reactCookie.save("token", "token-value", {
   expires: tomorrow // Will expire after 24hr from setting (value is in Date object)
});

Documentation: https://github.com/eXon/react-cookie#reactcookiesetrawcookiecookies