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http-status-node
Advanced tools
http-status-node is a node wrapper for http status codes.
Require this module in your code and get a status object by key.
Status objects contain code, message and createError method to create convenient node.js
Error instance with all status data included.
const express = require('express');
const Q = require('q');
const HTTP_STATUSES = require('http-status-node');
const app = express();
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
Q
.try(function () {
if (!req.param('ok')) {
throw HTTP_STATUSES.BAD_REQUEST.createError("Not ok");
}
res.send("ok", HTTP_STATUSES.OK.code);
})
.catch(function(err) {
res.send(err.message, err.httpStatus.code);
});
});
const server = app.listen(3000, function() {
console.log('Listening on port %d', server.address().port);
});
FAQs
Http error wrapper
The npm package http-status-node receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, http-status-node popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that http-status-node demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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