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api-error-handler

An error handler for JSON APIs, meant to be used with http-errors-style errors.

Example

var errorHandler = require('api-error-handler');

var api = new express.Router();
api.get('/users/:userid', function (req, res, next) {

});

api.use(errorHandler());

app.use('/api', api);

API

.use(errorHandler([options]))

Currently no options.

Errors

4xx errors are exposed to the client. Properties exposed are:

• message
• type
• name
• code
• status

5xx errors are not exposed to the client. Instead, they are given a generic message as well as the type.