How To Install node-cookie-parser on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cookie-parser on Debian 11. node-cookie-parser is cookie parsing middleware with signatures - Node.js module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cookie-parser on Debian 11.

node-cookie-parser is:

This module provides an express/connect middleware for parsing the HTTP Cookie header. It populates req.cookies with an object keyed by the cookie names.

Cookies can be optionally signed with a secret string, which is then stored in the ‘secret’ property of the Request object, so it can be used by other middleware.

Express is a web application framework for Node.js.

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

There are three methods to install node-cookie-parser on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install node-cookie-parser using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install node-cookie-parser

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install node-cookie-parser using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install node-cookie-parser

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install node-cookie-parser using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install node-cookie-parser

To uninstall only the node-cookie-parser package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove node-cookie-parser

To uninstall node-cookie-parser and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove node-cookie-parser

To remove node-cookie-parser configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge node-cookie-parser

We can use the following command to remove node-cookie-parser configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge node-cookie-parser

Dependencies

node-cookie-parser have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install node-cookie-parser package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.