So I have this custom middleware that tries to get the cookie from the client. This is the declaration:
function auth(req, res, next) {}
But to access the cookies from the request, I need to use another middleware i.e. cookieParser. So now I have no ideas how can I use that cookieParser in my custom auth Middleware. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
You do not use the middleware in your middleware. See the code bellow which should be fairly self-explanatory but i add some commments.
var express = require('express');
var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
var app = express();
// add the cookie parser
app.use(cookieParser());
// your middleware
app.use(function auth(req, res, next) {
// the cookie middleware above has processed the cookies
// you access them like this
console.log(req.cookies);
});
app.get('/', ...);
app.listen(8080)
