Cookie set and get using Edge Workers

This example implements an EdgeWorker that will respond with welcome message if its saved in cookie else will ask the user to enter his name.

Link to GitHub

Outcome : Return reponse with username if it exists in cookie



Below is the code snippet in main.js


/*
(c) Copyright 2019 Akamai Technologies, Inc. Licensed under Apache 2 license.
Version: 0.1
Purpose:  Respond with empty JSON if cart cookie not part of request.
Repo: https://github.com/akamai/edgeworkers-examples/tree/master/empty-cart
*/

import { Cookies, SetCookie } from 'cookies';

export function onClientRequest (request) {
  const cookies = new Cookies(request.getHeader('Cookie'));
  var cartCookie = cookies.get('cart');

  if (!cartCookie) {
    request.respondWith(200, { 'Content-Type': ['application/json; charset=utf-8'] }, '{}');
  }
}