@hiroit/common v1.0.20

Common Modules for Error Handling & Middlewares Used in Ticketing Project

Errors

• BadRequestError

  	Contains a `400` status code and an arbitrary message

• CustomError

  	A base class to contain status code along with message

• DatabaseConnectionError

  	Generic error for database connection issues

• NotAuthorizedError

  	Contains a `401` status code along with `Unauthorized` message

• NotFoundError

  	Contains a `400` status code along with `NotFound` message

• RequestValidationError

  	To be used with `express-validator` for validation of incoming requests

Middlewares

• currentUser

  	A middleware to extract `jwt` token from cookie in request header

• errorHandler

  	A middleware to return serialized error messages as below:
  
  	```json
  	{
  		"errors": [
  			{
  				message: "message", 
  				field: "input field"
  			}
  		]
  	}
  	``` 

• requireAuth

  	A middleware to detect login status

• validateRequest

  	A middleware to throw custom errors from validation of user input