JWT Cookie

Small library for reading and writing objects to http requests and responses.

Usage

npm install jwt-cookie

import JwtCookie from 'jwt-cookie';

const jwtc = new JwtCookie(
	process.env.JWT_SECRET, // A secret string to use for signing the JWT
	'my_session' // The cookie key to use (optional)
);

export default function requestHandler(req, res) {
	const session = jwt.get(req) || { count: 0 };

	session.count++;

	jwt.set(res, session);

	res.end(`You've viewed this page ${session.count} times.`)
}

API

JwtCookie

Class for reading objects from HTTP requests and saving objects to responses, using json web tokens under the hood

• JwtCookie
  • new JwtCookie(secret, cookieKey)
  • .get(req)
  • .set(res, payload)

new JwtCookie(secret, cookieKey)

Create an instance of JwtCookie

| Param | Type | Default | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | secret | string | | The secret to use to generate and verify the web tokens | | cookieKey | string | "session" | The key to use for the cookie, defaults to session |

jwtCookie.get(req)

Get the object from the request. Returns null if none is set.

Kind: instance method of JwtCookie

| Param | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | req | http.IncomingMessage | The incoming request object |

jwtCookie.set(res, payload)

Write an object to the response's cookie header

Kind: instance method of JwtCookie

| Param | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | res | http.ServerResponse | The response object to write to | | payload | * | The object to write to the response cookie |