cocookie

CoCookie: Easy Cookies Interface

CoCookie is a minimalistic accurate JavaScript ES6 package that provides a convenient interface to work with cookies.

The API is as simple as possible. The documented code is clean and transparent. See the usage in examples below.

Usage

import cookie from "cocookie";

// Set cookie "key" to value "bR6o1x"
cookie("key").set("bR6o1x");

// Set cookie "key" to value "bR6o1x" with additional attributes
cookie("key").set("bR6o1x", {
    domain: "my.domain.com",                         // domain to bind cookie to
    expires: new Date(Date.now() + 1000*60*60*24*7), // date when cookie expires
    maxAge: 60*60*24,                                // max time in seconds the cookie lives
    path: "/",                                       // the URL path the cookie will be bind to
    secure: true                                     // restrict cookie transport to HTTPS only
});

// Get value of cookie "key"
let key = cookie("key").get();

// Delete cookie "key"
cookie("key").delete();

// When cookie is already set, you can just update its without touching its value.
cookie("key").update({
    expires: new Date(Date.now() + 1000*60*60*24*7)  // refresh the cookie for 1 more week
});

// Delete cookie "key" with optional attributes
cookie("key").delete({
    domain: "my.domain.com",
    path: "/"
});

// Need the list of cookies to iterate through? Here you go:
import { cookies } from "cocookie";
cookies().forEach(name => cookie(name).delete());
// Note that you cannot delete cookies from other domains/paths in this way.
// Do delete the cookie from known path/domain use delete attributes (see delete above).

// If you need to store JSON in cookies (which is not common), use the following pattern.
cookie("key").set(JSON.stringify({ base: "bR6o1x", salt: "j5p9Qz" }));
let object = JSON.stringify(cookie("key").get());

Installation

npm install --save-dev cocookie

Install CoCookie as a npm dependency. Use this package with any module bundler like Webpack until ES6 modules standard will be implemented natively.

If your module bundler cannot resolve ES6 code, use import cookie from "cocookie/umd.js";. For usage from browser directly use the script tag (or download this script):

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/ZitRos/cocookie/master/umd.js"></script>