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MERN Quick Start Guide

By : Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
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Book Image

MERN Quick Start Guide

3 (1)
By: Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova

Overview of this book

The MERN stack is a collection of great tools—MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node—that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, having a shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications. This book focuses on providing key tasks that can help you get started, learn, understand, and build full-stack web applications. It walks you through the process of installing all the requirements and project setup to build client-side React web applications, managing synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux, and building real-time web applications with Socket.IO, RESTful APIs, and other concepts. This book gives you practical and clear hands-on experience so you can begin building a full-stack MERN web application. Quick Start Guides are focused, shorter titles that provide a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don't need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Writing error-handler middleware functions

ExpressJS already includes by default a built-in error handler which gets executed at the end of all middleware and route handlers.

There are ways that the built-in error handler can be triggered. One is implicit when an error occurs inside a route handler. For example:

app.get('/', (request, response, next) => { 
    throw new Error('Oh no!, something went wrong!') 
}) 

And another way of triggering the built-in error handler is explicit when passing an error as an argument to next(error). For instance:

app.get('/', (request, response, next) => { 
    try { 
        throw new Error('Oh no!, something went wrong!') 
    } catch (error) { 
        next(error) 
    } 
}) 
The stack trace is displayed on the client side. If NODE_ENV is set to production, then the stack trace is not included.
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