Forwards Cookies

This is a project created to work with Cookies for cross-domain in a specific project. Its a approach to sent Cookies via url params that can be useful for other 😊

Availables methods

Name	Description
getCookie	Get specific cookie content
setCookie	Create new cookie with custom value, and clear if already exists a cookie with same name
deleteCookie	Delete specific existing cookie
generateCookieAsUrl	Generate an url with Cookie as param. (Supports url that already has params)
getCookieFromUrl	Get formatted cookie from url param
parseCookieString	Decode Cookie stringified to return a json if posible

Get started

Install

$ npm i forward-cookies
# or
$ yarn add forward-cookies

To get start, import in your project and add the instance to a variables

import { ForwardCookies } from "forward-cookies";

const userCookie = new ForwardCookies();

Set a cookie

Create a new cookie

userCookie.setCookie({
  cookieName: "user",
  value: "Bruno Rodrigues",
  expiration: 30,
  domain: "itbruno.com.br",
  path: "/",
});

Get an specific cookie from cookie name

userCookie.getCookie("user");

Delete an specific cookie from cookie name

userCookie.deleteCookie("user");

Generate an url with cookie as param

userCookie.generateCookieAsUrl({
  cookieName: "user",
  url: "https://www.itbruno.com.br",
});

Get a cookie from url param

Its necessary exists an cookie as param on url. You can do this with generateCookieAsUrl method.

userCookie.getCookieFromUrl({
  cookieName: "user",
  parsed: false,
});

// output: Bruno%20Rodrigues

If you sent a cookie object for url, do you have the output as json and encoded option, example:

const userCookie = new ForwardCookies();

const newUser = { name: "Bruno", username: "itbruno" };

// Set a cookie with newUser object stringified
userCookie.setCookie({
  cookieName: "newuser",
  value: JSON.stringify(newUser),
});

// Generate an full url with cookie as param
userCookie.generateCookieAsUrl("newuser");

// Get cookie from url param
userCookie.getCookieFromUrl({
  cookieName: "newuser",
  parsed: true,
});

Output

{
    "json": {
        "name": "Bruno",
        "username": "itbruno"
    },
    "encoded": "{%22name%22:%22Bruno%22,%22username%22:%22itbruno%22}"
}