Hono provides utilities to help you handle cookies.

The basic ones are getCookie(), setCookie() and deleteCookie():

import { getCookie, setCookie, deleteCookie } from 'hono/cookie'

setCookie('username', 'joe')

You can set all the cookie options passing an object as 3rd parameter:

setCookie('username', 'Flavio', { 
  domain: 'thevalleyofcode.com', 
  path: '/administrator', 
  expires: new Date(Date.now() + 900000), 
  httpOnly: true 
})

The most useful parameters you can set are:

Get a cookie using:

const cookie = getCookie('username')

A cookie can be cleared with:

deleteCookie('username')

Then we have 2 more functions to work with signed cookies:

import { getSignedCookie, setSignedCookie } from 'hono/cookie'

They work in the same way but have a signature so you can detect if the client modified the cookie.

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