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Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide Build robust and scalable web applications with modern JavaScript techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345391
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Catching errors in Koa

One of the great things about error handling in Koa is that, by default, the framework handles all errors, either asynchronous or synchronous. This is made possible by the fact that Koa has a cascading middleware stack and an error handler can be added at the very top of the stack, which will unwind last. This makes it possible for Koa to handle all uncaught errors in applications by default.

Koa's default behavior is to output all errors to stderr unless app.silent is set to true.

To catch errors that occur in Koa, you can define an error-handling middleware to run as one of the first middleware. This is in contrast to Express, where error-handling middleware has to be defined as the last in the stack, with the signature (err, req, res, next).

In Koa, error-handling middleware can be defined as any other middleware, with the notable exception that...

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