Concept

A cookie is a small piece of data stored on a user's computer through a web browser. Cookies are commonly used to store information such as login information, language settings, personal preferences, and other data related to the user's state.

Cookies will expire after a certain period of time (Expire day).

How to use

Cookies do not have built-in functions for interaction, so we can use the following functions

Assign a value to a cookie

function setCookie(cname, cvalue, exdays) {
  const d = new Date();
  d.setTime(d.getTime() + (exdays*24*60*60*1000));
  let expires = "expires="+ d.toUTCString();
  document.cookie = cname + "=" + cvalue + ";" + expires + ";path=/";
}

Get value from cookie

function getCookie(cname) {
  let name = cname + "=";
  let decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
  let ca = decodedCookie.split(';');
  for(let i = 0; i <ca.length; i++) {
    let c = ca[i];
    while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {
      c = c.substring(1);
    }
    if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {
      return c.substring(name.length, c.length);
    }
  }
  return "";
}

Check the existence of a cookie

function checkCookie() {
  let username = getCookie("username");
  if (username != "") {
   alert("Welcome again " + username);
  } else {
    username = prompt("Please enter your name:", "");
    if (username != "" && username != null) {
      setCookie("username", username, 365);
    }
  }
}