How To Set Cookies for JWT in Node.js

Question

I am trying to simply set the cookie for the JSON Web Token during authentication in my Node.js and Express web application.

Since I cannot do res.redirect after using res.cookie() , how can I achieve this?

router.post('/', function(req, res, next) {
    passport.authenticate('local', function(err, user, info) {
        if (!user) { return res.redirect('/auth'); }
        var theToken = jwt.encode({ id : user.id }, req.app.get('appSecret'));

        res.cookie(theToken);

        return res.redirect('/profile/' + username);

    })(req, res, next);
});

Am I approaching this problem correctly? I cannot find much of anything on how people are setting their JSON Web Token s once they have created them.

Answer 1

It seems that res.redirect works with setting the cookies, despite what some other SO answers state. Hopefully this helps someone else.