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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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Writing error handlers

To register custom error handlers in Koa, we simply need to define middleware with a try... catch statement to capture the errors, then send responses back to the client. This should be done at the top of the stack.

We can define error handlers based on various requirements to handle different types of errors for different types of clients. These error handlers can be used independently or combined, depending on the needs of the application. Let's define a set of error handlers and register them in our application:

const jsonErrorHandler = async (ctx, next) => {
try {
await next();
} catch (err) {
const isJson = ctx.get('Accept') === 'application/json';
if (isJson) {
ctx.body = {
error: 'An error just occurred'
}
} else {
throw err;
}
}
}

app.use(jsonErrorHandler);

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