@bigoncloud/middleware v1.0.18

Commonly Used Middlewares

This collection of middlewares can:

• setup cors, helmet, compression, morgan and cookie-session
• validate a user
• handles all errors
• handle unknown requests
• check if user have authorization
• validate imcoming requests

Quick start

First, run npm install @bigoncloud/middleware --save for your app. Then in your Express app, if you want to load the common middleware function:

const { commonMiddleware } = require('@bigoncloud/middleware')

Important

It's best to use commonMiddleware early in your middleware stack, so that cors, helmet, compression, morgan and cookie-sessions are set

The environment variable names supported are:

NODE_ENV

During development morgan, the HTTP request logger middleware will active

During tests your cookie-session will not be secure, will only be secure during production and development

JWT_SECRET

If you use this package, make sure you set your secret key with this environment variable name JWT_SECRET. This will through an error if secret is not set with this environment variable name

Other

This package is designed to work with @bigoncloud/errors package