js-cookie/js-cookie

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

js-cookie is a simple, lightweight JavaScript library for reading, writing, and deleting browser cookies on the client side. It is RFC 6265 compliant, dependency-free, under 800 bytes gzipped, and ships both ES module and UMD variants.

Use cases

• set and get browser cookies in javascript
• create cookies with expiration dates
• read all cookies visible to the current page
• custom cookie encoding and decoding
• manage cookies across a website in the browser

When to choose

• you need a tiny, dependency-free cookie utility for the browser
• you want broad browser support with ES and CommonJS/AMD module compatibility
• you need RFC 6265 compliant cookie handling with custom converters

When to avoid

• you need server-side cookie handling in Node.js rather than the browser
• you want a full state-management or storage solution like localStorage wrappers
• you need cookies with HttpOnly or Secure flags set from the client, which browsers do not allow

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client developer-tools web-development frontend browser-extensions browser cookies client-side rfc6265 zero-dependency umd es-modules javascript nodejs

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