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 |

How to use

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}"
}