Express cookie-session not creating cookie on client side - node.js

Question

I have a simple ExpressJS app that is using cookie-session to create a cookie. I have a few routes defined but none are returning a cookie. The documentation for cookie-session says that req.session needs to be altered to set the cookie, which is what I'm doing, but it's not working. I'm not seeing any cookie in when I inspect the Application cookies in Chrome. My app looks like this:
const express = require('express');
const cookieSession = require('cookie-session');
const { v4: uuid } = require('uuid')
const app = express();
app.use(express.json())
app.use(cookieSession({
name: 'shortlinks',
keys: [process.env.SESHSECRET],
maxAge: 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 // 30 days
}))
app.use(function(req, res, next) {
console.log(`${req.method} ${req.url}`);
req.session.id = (req.session.id || uuid());
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', '*');
next();
})
app.get(
'/api/links',
(req, res, next)=> {
res.json(readDb());
next();
}
)
What do I have to do to have the cookie created?

Answer 1

i hade the same probleme , and i used 'cookies' library i worked well for me...
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cookies
1.npm uninstall cookie-session
//for deleting the old one
2.npm install cookies
//install cookies
and then use it like that
const Cookie = require('cookies')
//inside your route set the token
const cookie = new Cookie(req ,res ,{})
cookie.set('token',accessToken{signed:false,secure:false,httpOnly:true})
//get the token back
const token = cookie.get('token',{signed:false})
console.log(token)