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Aman Chourasia
Aman Chourasia

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What are Cookies?

'What are Cookies?'- this question has become ubiquitous ever since GDPR came into effect.

Cookies have been of great importance in the tech industry since the advent of the digital world.

Mention “cookies” and most people expect a chocolate chip treat to appear. When talking about computers, however, cookies aren’t on the dropdown menu.

In fact, they’re not even physical objects. Yet they do a great deal of the work that makes it more convenient for you to browse the Internet — and they can be troublesome if you don’t know how to clear or delete cookies.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files sent from the website to the person’s terminal (usually the browser), where they are stored before being transmitted again on the same website visited by the same user.

A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from the user’s hard drive nor pass on computer viruses or capture email addresses. Each single cookie is unique to the user's web browser.

Some of the cookies’ functions can be transferred to other technologies. In this document the term 'cookie' refers to both cookies, as such, as well as all similar technologies.

What are Cookies? Different Types of Web Cookies

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Ian Spence

as Google’s decision to phase-out cookies will take effect in less than a year.

This is misleading. Google isn't phasing out cookies all together, they're phasing out third-party cookies, a very important distinction.

blog.google/products/chrome/update...

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Aman Chourasia

Oh, I'm very sorry for it. This update happened a few weeks ago. I'll update it.

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askoflor

hi i read somewhere that putting reactjs in a laravel project is not a good practice

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Aman Chourasia

You can use React with Laravel, it depends on the type of project, you're building.

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askoflor

my problem is the following I want to build a web application with reactjs for the background tend and laravel for the backend so to do it I want to separate it into two projects a reactjs project for the background tend and a laravel project for the backend I want it do in the perspective of obstructing application loading and SEO referencing so I would like to know if this is a good practice

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Aman Chourasia

Yes, there will be no issue with it.

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