I've been encountering an issue where I am attempting to set a cookie with a specific expiry date of 3 months, but the expiration is not setting correctly.
Using momentJS, I created a date object for the desired time. The console confirms that the correct time is displayed, however, the cookie does not expire after 3 months as intended - instead, it expires in just a couple of minutes.
// Establish the date the cookies will expire on
var cookieDate = moment().add(6, 'months').toDate();
console.log(cookieDate);
res.cookie('username', user.username, { expires: cookieDate });
After reviewing the documentation, it simply states that a Date object should be passed in.
Browsing through stackoverflow, I found one suggestion here advising the use of req.session.cookie, which seems incorrect as cookies should be set for the client's response rather than in a session.