How do I read cookies on server? about cookies

[jonathan-stone]

Thanks for writing react-cookie! It's been very helpful on the client side.

I'm trying to figure out how to use it on the server side. What does plugToRequest() do? The readme doesn't say. "You can also plug it directly" - I don't understand what that means. Plug what into what?

Also, does "(require the cookieParser middleware)" mean that we need to use cookieParser in order for plugToRequest() to do whatever it does? What's the point of plugToRequest if we can just read the cookie from the request on the server side thanks to cookieParser?

I guess a more complete example that showed what you do after calling plugToRequest, or what it enables you do do, would be helpful.

[outlawshade]

Try

reactCookie.setRawCookie(req.headers.cookie);
let user = reactCookie.load('username-session');

[eXon]

@jonathan-stone just took the time to improve the readme

plugToRequest is loading your user cookies so you can do server-rendering and have the same result. Everytime you load a cookie, it will simulate the same result on Node.js.

It also send back the changes you might have done while server-rendering (setting or removing a cookie).

[jonathan-stone]

Thanks @eXon !

[developer239]

I decided to create custom middleware because of this stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34038726/redux-router-how-to-replay-state-after-refresh

[eXon]

Are you using plugToRequest? (look at the readme)

[developer239]

I am but when I do const userId = cookie.load('userId') I get undefined.

[developer239]

I resolved this problem like this:

mz026/universal-redux-template#35

[jonathan-stone]

Hi @eXon, to clarify, this issue is a request for improved documentation. I'm curious, why it has been closed with no change to the docs? I guess I'm being lazy in that I could read the source and file a PR with a little more info in the documentation source.

@developer239, I did something similar, but I wonder if react-cookie would have made adding that code unnecessary.

[eXon]

@jonathan-stone are you saying the plugToRequest is broken? Because how to use it is kinda the first thing explained in the readme.

[jonathan-stone]

@eXon No, I'm not saying anything like that. My question is just:

What does plugToRequest do?

Pourquoi est-ce que je voudrais appeler ce function? Qu'est-ce que ca fait? Le documentation dit seulement qu'on peut l'appeler, main ne dit rien de ce que fait le function, ou ce que je pourrais faire apres l'avoir appele.