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JavaScript Express Basics Deeper into Routing with Express Statelessness, Setting and Reading Cookies

Posted by chrisshadrach
chrisshadrach
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Do we still need to use cookie-parser?

I know that we no longer need to install body-parser in newer version(s) of express, but is cookie-parse now built in or does it need to be installed still? Thanks.

2 Answers

Byron Injeeli
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Hi chrisshadrach. On the Express documentation site, it looks like cookie-parser still needs to be installed separately using the npm package. http://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/cookie-parser.html.

kasu0270
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Hi yes, unfortunatly it seems that body-parser is out of date. You can use:

app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));

instead.