req.cookies is null and I don't know why - node.js

Question

I've looked at a few previous stack overflow posts but can't figure out why this is happening.
I have included cookie parser before all my routes and the cookie is in the browser. For some reason I just can't access it.
const cookieParser = require("cookie-parser");
const cors = require("cors");
const AppError = require("./utils/appError");
const globalErrorHandler = require("./controllers/errorController");
const dishRouter = require("./routes/dishRoutes");
const userRouter = require("./routes/userRoutes");
const orderRouter = require("./routes/orderRoutes");
const imageRouter = require("./routes/imageRouter");
const app = express();
app.use(cookieParser());
app.enable("trust proxy");
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(cors());
app.options("*", cors());
ROUTES...
Here is how I am accessing the req.cookies
First I do an axios call
axios({
method: "patch",
url: `http://localhost:8080/api/v1/users/me`,
data: this.state,
})
Then it goes through this middleware
router
.route("/me")
.patch(authController.protect, userController.updateProfile)
In authController.protect I do the following
try {
//1) Getting token and check if it exists.
let token;
if (
//POSTMAN
req.headers.authorization &&
req.headers.authorization.startsWith("Bearer")
) {
token = req.headers.authorization.split(" ")[1];
} else if (req.cookies.jwt) {
token = req.cookies.jwt;
}
console.log(`TOKEN: ${token}`);
console.log(req.cookies);
The console.log right above gives null.

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue with my code where I was getting null when checking req.cookies. I used express for my node.js files and I followed the explanations from the following links:
http://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/cors.html
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/introduction-to-fetch
So from server side I added configuration to cors() and set credentials: true and on client side from my fetch() request I added credentials: 'include' and this gave me access to the cookies on my browser. My fetch() request was making use of the PUT method.