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Start your free trialRebecca Jensen
11,580 PointsCookies are undefined?
I'm following the Statelessness, Setting and Reading Cookies tutorial, which has you remembering cookies via...
res.render('pageName', {name: req.cookies.username})
...but my cookies are returning as undefined. In the tutorial, we have a form for the user to submit their name, which is the cookie we want to store. I've done this and watched the cookies in the console, and I see my entry to the form flash in the cookie list, then become undefined.
Why is this? And how can I circumvent it?
Thanks!
David Ray
6,691 Pointsfrom another question posted on here, I used Nick Trabue's answer as posted below and this worked for me
app.get('hello', (req, res) => {
res.render('hello', {name: req.cookies['username']});
});
app.post('/hello', (req, res) => {
res.cookie('username', req.body.username);
res.render('hello', {name: req.cookies['username']});
});
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsIain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 PointsCan you share your code where you set the cookie in the response to a POST request?