How do I create and read a value from cookie?

Question

How do I create and read a value from cookie in JavaScript?

Answer 1

Minimalistic and full featured ES6 approach:

const setCookie = (name, value, days = 7, path = '/') => {
  const expires = new Date(Date.now() + days * 864e5).toUTCString()
  document.cookie = name + '=' + encodeURIComponent(value) + '; expires=' + expires + '; path=' + path
}

const getCookie = (name) => {
  return document.cookie.split('; ').reduce((r, v) => {
    const parts = v.split('=')
    return parts[0] === name ? decodeURIComponent(parts[1]) : r
  }, '')
}

const deleteCookie = (name, path) => {
  setCookie(name, '', -1, path)
}

Answer 2

Here are functions you can use for creating and retrieving cookies.

var createCookie = function(name, value, days) {
    var expires;
    if (days) {
        var date = new Date();
        date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
        expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();
    }
    else {
        expires = "";
    }
    document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expires + "; path=/";
}

function getCookie(c_name) {
    if (document.cookie.length > 0) {
        c_start = document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
        if (c_start != -1) {
            c_start = c_start + c_name.length + 1;
            c_end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", c_start);
            if (c_end == -1) {
                c_end = document.cookie.length;
            }
            return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start, c_end));
        }
    }
    return "";
}

Answer 3

Simple way to read cookies in ES6.

function getCookies() {
    var cookies = {};
    for (let cookie of document.cookie.split('; ')) {
        let [name, value] = cookie.split("=");
        cookies[name] = decodeURIComponent(value);
    }
    console.dir(cookies);
}

Answer 4

An improved version of the readCookie:

function readCookie( name )
{
    var cookieParts = document.cookie.split( ';' )
    ,   i           = 0
    ,   part
    ,   part_data
    ,   value
    ;

    while( part = cookieParts[ i++ ] )
    {
        part_data = part.split( '=' );

        if ( part_data.shift().replace(/\s/, '' ) === name )
        {
            value = part_data.shift();
            break;
        }

    }
    return value;
}

This should break as soon as you have found your cookie value and return its value. In my opinion very elegant with the double split.

The replace on the if-condition is a white space trim, to make sure it matches correctly