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Discussion on: How to Implement Login with Google in Nest JS

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Tausif Ezaj Khan •

Hi Michael,
How to store the user info in cookie session in Nest? Could you point me to the right direction?

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Goffy • • Edited

Hi, I think this example is for jwt.
If you want to use a cookie session you can add a route guard that creates a session cookie for you.

Controller

    @Post('/signin')
    @UseGuards(LoginGuard)
    signin(@Request() req: IUserRequest): void {
        console.log(`@AuthController ${JSON.stringify(req.user)}`)
    }
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Guard

import { ExecutionContext, Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { AuthGuard } from '@nestjs/passport';

@Injectable()
export class LoginGuard extends AuthGuard('local') {
    async canActivate(context: ExecutionContext): Promise<boolean> {
        const result = (await super.canActivate(context)) as boolean;
        const request = context.switchToHttp().getRequest();
        await super.logIn(request);
        return result;
    }
}
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At this point you have a cookie and you can redirect the user back to front end ( if you have one ) and do another request to ask user information.