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A practical, Complete Tutorial on HTTP cookies

Valentino Gagliardi on September 16, 2020

What are cookies in web development? Cookies are tiny pieces of data that the backend can store in the user's browsers. User tracking, p...

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Guilherme Carvalho Lima • Sep 21 '20 • Edited

Is it possible to play with sameSite none and secure cookies between client and server side both locally? I'm having problem probably because of trusted and signed credentials for https protocols. Do you know any article about that?

Hey nice article. You wrapped up all information about the cookies pretty well. Thanks

Ho Honsing • Sep 21 '20

Thanks for the detailed writings!
I have one question though: Where can we store the JWT refresh token other than localStorage & cookies, so that the user still have that piece of token after a refresh/hard reload?

Valentino Gagliardi • Sep 23 '20

That's a good question. I'll write something on this topic sooner or later!

Ho Honsing • Sep 24 '20

Good to hear. Looking forward to another great content from you!

Sarah Thompson • Sep 16 '20

This is great, very nicely organized! Thanks!

Valentino Gagliardi • Sep 16 '20

You're welcome!

Julian Jupiter • Sep 18 '20

So timely, I am learning authentication in ReactJS and I am using both Cookie and localStorage. I'll keep this under my pillow. Thanks for this.

Valentino Gagliardi • Sep 23 '20

You're welcome!

qq449245884 • Sep 22 '20

Hello, may I translate your article into Chinese?I would like to share it with more developers in China. I will give the original author and original source.