How can I identify if the same user is opening the website or not with node/express backend? I've tried to set a cookie but don't know why it's removed automatically
How can I identify if the same user is opening the website or not with node/express backend? I've tried to set a cookie but don't know why it's removed automatically
Here's just a sample of how you can achieve it.
First install this npm package:
npm install express cookie-parser
Then a general setup:
const express = require('express')
const cookieParser = require('cookie-parser')
//to setup express app
const app = express()
app.use(cookieParser());
Bootstrap the rest of your liking.
Here's the important part for the cookies:
//an example route for setting cookies
app.get('/setcookie', (req, res) => {
res.cookie(`Cookie token name`,`encrypted cookie string Value`,{
maxAge: 5000,
// expires works the same as the maxAge
expires: new Date('01 12 2021'),
secure: true,
httpOnly: true,
sameSite: 'lax'
});
res.send('Cookie have been saved successfully');
});
If you want you may use this route to check the cookies from your browser (or look into the developer tools if your cookie name is set):
// get the cookie incoming request
app.get('/getcookie', (req, res) => {
//show the saved cookies
console.log(req.cookies)
res.send(req.cookies);
});
So in a nutshell this should do the trick :)
More details and examples of this approach can be found here.