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Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

By : Olayinka Omole
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Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

By: Olayinka Omole

Overview of this book

Every developer wants to build modular and scalable web applications. Modern versions of JavaScript have made this possible in Node.js, and Koa is a Node.js framework that makes it easy. This book is the ideal introduction for JavaScript developers who want to create scalable server side applications using Node.js and Koa.js. The book shows you how Koa can be used to start projects from scratch, register custom and existing middleware, read requests, and send responses to users. We will explore the core concepts in Koa, such as error handling, logging, and request and response handling. We will dive into new concepts in JavaScript development, and see how paradigms such as async/await help with modern Node.js application development. By the end of this book, you will be building robust web applications in Koa using modern development paradigms and techniques of Node.js development.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Catching errors in Koa

One of the great things about error handling in Koa is that, by default, the framework handles all errors, either asynchronous or synchronous. This is made possible by the fact that Koa has a cascading middleware stack and an error handler can be added at the very top of the stack, which will unwind last. This makes it possible for Koa to handle all uncaught errors in applications by default.

Koa's default behavior is to output all errors to stderr unless app.silent is set to true.

To catch errors that occur in Koa, you can define an error-handling middleware to run as one of the first middleware. This is in contrast to Express, where error-handling middleware has to be defined as the last in the stack, with the signature (err, req, res, next).

In Koa, error-handling middleware can be defined as any other middleware, with the notable exception that...