Cookie Store API

This repository documents an API for accessing HTTP cookies asynchronously from
Document and Service Worker global contexts.

• The explainer is a developer-oriented preview of the API.
• The specification draft is aimed at
  browser developers.

The API has a test suite in the
Web Platform Tests project.

• Read the
  test code
  for example usage.
• See the test passing rates across browsers.
• Run the tests in your own browser.

Resources

This API is inspired by and loosely based on the following discussions.

• w3c/ServiceWorker#707
• whatwg#14

cookie change events
is a concurrently developed API proposal that also addresses the synchronous
nature of document.cookie.

The Cookie Store API has also been discussed in the following places.

• WICG discourse thread
• Blink intent-to-implement

The best resource for understanding the deep technical aspects of cookies is
the most recent draft of
RFC 6265bis.

This API aims to replace
document.cookie
and
navigator.cookieEnabled.

This API is also known as the Async Cookies API.