Cookies Extra

A TypeScript library for parsing and managing HTTP cookies, converted from C++ implementations used in Bun runtime.

Features

• Parse Cookie headers into dictionaries
• Parse Set-Cookie headers into Cookie objects
• Full TypeScript support with comprehensive type definitions
• Cookie validation and serialization
• CookieMap for managing collections of cookies
• Support for all standard cookie attributes (Domain, Path, Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite, etc.)

Installation

npm install cookies-extra

Usage

Basic Cookie Parsing

import { parseCookieHeader, parseSetCookieHeader } from 'cookies-extra';

// Parse a Cookie header into a dictionary
const cookies = parseCookieHeader('sessionId=abc123; theme=dark; lang=en');
console.log(cookies);
// { sessionId: 'abc123', theme: 'dark', lang: 'en' }

// Parse a Set-Cookie header into a Cookie object
const cookie = parseSetCookieHeader('sessionId=abc123; Domain=example.com; Secure; HttpOnly');
console.log(cookie.name); // 'sessionId'
console.log(cookie.value); // 'abc123'
console.log(cookie.domain); // 'example.com'
console.log(cookie.secure); // true

Using Cookie Class

import { Cookie, CookieSameSite } from 'cookies-extra';

// Create a new cookie
const cookie = Cookie.create({
  name: 'user',
  value: 'john_doe',
  domain: 'example.com',
  path: '/app',
  secure: true,
  httpOnly: true,
  sameSite: CookieSameSite.Strict,
  maxAge: 3600
});

// Serialize to Set-Cookie header format
console.log(cookie.toString());
// "user=john_doe; Domain=example.com; Path=/app; Max-Age=3600; Secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=Strict"

// Parse from Set-Cookie header
const parsed = Cookie.parse('user=john_doe; Domain=example.com; Secure');

Using CookieMap

import { CookieMap } from 'cookies-extra';

// Create from various input types
const cookieMap1 = new CookieMap('session=abc; theme=dark');
const cookieMap2 = new CookieMap({ session: 'abc', theme: 'dark' });
const cookieMap3 = new CookieMap([['session', 'abc'], ['theme', 'dark']]);

// Get and set cookies
cookieMap1.set('newCookie', 'value');
console.log(cookieMap1.get('session')); // 'abc'
console.log(cookieMap1.has('theme')); // true

// Convert to plain object
const plain = cookieMap1.toJSON();
console.log(plain); // { session: 'abc', theme: 'dark', newCookie: 'value' }

// Iterate over cookies
for (const [name, value] of cookieMap1) {
  console.log(\`\${name}=\${value}\`);
}

Working with Headers

import { createCookieMapFromHeaders, writeSetCookieHeaders } from 'cookies-extra';

// Parse cookies from Headers object
const headers = new Headers({ 'cookie': 'session=abc; theme=dark' });
const cookieMap = createCookieMapFromHeaders(headers);

// Write Set-Cookie headers
const responseHeaders = new Headers();
cookieMap.set(Cookie.create({ name: 'newSession', value: 'xyz789' }));
writeSetCookieHeaders(cookieMap, responseHeaders);

API Reference

Cookie Class

Methods

• Cookie.create(options) - Create a new cookie
• Cookie.parse(cookieString) - Parse a Set-Cookie header string
• Cookie.serialize(cookies) - Serialize an array of cookies to Cookie header format
• cookie.toString() - Convert to Set-Cookie header format
• cookie.toJSON() - Convert to plain object
• cookie.isExpired() - Check if cookie is expired

Validation

• Cookie.isValidCookieName(name) - Validate cookie name
• Cookie.isValidCookiePath(path) - Validate cookie path
• Cookie.isValidCookieDomain(domain) - Validate cookie domain

CookieMap Class

Methods

• new CookieMap(input?) - Create from string, object, or array
• get(name) - Get cookie value
• set(name, value) or set(cookie) - Set cookie
• has(name) - Check if cookie exists
• delete(name) - Delete cookie
• clone() - Create a copy
• size() - Get number of cookies
• toJSON() - Convert to plain object
• entries(), keys(), values() - Iterators

Utility Functions

• parseCookieHeader(header) - Parse Cookie header to object
• parseSetCookieHeader(header) - Parse Set-Cookie header to Cookie
• parseSetCookieHeaders(headers) - Parse multiple Set-Cookie headers
• createCookieMapFromHeaders(headers) - Create CookieMap from Headers
• writeSetCookieHeaders(cookieMap, headers) - Write to Headers object

License

MIT