Do I need cookie-parser?

[joel]

my express is using passport's local strategy. 

i just noticed i don't use the cookie-parser middleware and everything seems to work fine. 

The passport example app have it - https://github.com/mjhea0/passport-local-express4/blob/master/app.js#L26    

any ideas?

[zladuric]

Everything is working fine because most likely you're using a session middleware with passport which reads cookies on its own.

So if you don't need to store other data in the cookies, that's fine and you can go on without them.

[joel]

got it. thanks!