@hapi/boom
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The @hapi/boom npm package is a utility for returning HTTP-friendly error objects. It provides a set of utilities for returning HTTP errors. Each utility returns a Boom error response object, which includes the following properties: statusCode, error, message, and a constructor that can be used to create a new error.
Creating HTTP error objects
This feature allows you to create error objects that are appropriate for HTTP responses. For example, you can create a 404 error when a resource is not found.
{"statusCode": 404, "error": "Not Found", "message": "Cannot find the specified resource"}Decorating error objects
This feature allows you to add additional information to the error object, such as validation details or other context-specific data.
{"statusCode": 400, "error": "Bad Request", "message": "Invalid request payload input", "data": { "details": [ {"message": "'value' is not allowed"} ] }}Custom error messages
This feature allows you to specify a custom message for the error object, which can be more descriptive and helpful for debugging.
{"statusCode": 400, "error": "Bad Request", "message": "Custom error message"}Similar to @hapi/boom, http-errors is a package for creating HTTP error objects. It is less feature-rich compared to @hapi/boom, which provides more utilities and options for error handling.
This package is an express middleware for handling API errors. It is similar to @hapi/boom in that it helps manage errors in HTTP context, but it is specifically tailored for Express applications and not as flexible for other contexts.
boom is part of the hapi ecosystem and was designed to work seamlessly with the hapi web framework and its other components (but works great on its own or with other frameworks). If you are using a different web framework and find this module useful, check out hapi – they work even better together.
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HTTP-friendly error objects
We found that @hapi/boom demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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