Expressjs Response

Express middleware to generate JSON response

Installation

npm install expressjs-response --save

Quick Start

Use as Express middleware

import express from 'express'
import responseEnhancer from 'expressjs-response'

const app = express()

// use in express middleware
app.use(responseEnhancer({
  withStatusCode: true, // Include status code in response body.
  withStatusMessage: true, // Include status message in response body.
}))

// example usage
app.get('/success', (req, res) => res.ok({ name: 'John Doe' }))
app.get('/badrequest', (req, res) => res.badRequest('Invalid parameter.'))
app.get('/badgateway', (req, res) => res.badGateway())

app.listen(3000, () => console.log('Start at http://localhost:3000'))

Example Response

200

res.ok({ name: 'John Doe' })

HTTP/1.1 200 Ok
{
    "status": "success",
    "data": {
        "name": "John Doe"
    }
}

400

res.badRequest()

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
{
    "status": "fail",
    "error": {
        "code": "400",
        "message": "Bad Request"
    }
}

400 With Parameter

res.badRequest('Invalid parameter.')

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
{
    "status": "fail",
    "error": {
        "code": "400",
        "message": "Bad Request",
        "detail": "Invalid parameter."
    }
}

502

res.badGateway()

HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway
{
    "status": "error",
    "error": {
        "code": "502",
        "message": "Bad Gateway"
    }
}

API

METHOD	CODE	PARAMS
res.ok()	200	res.ok(data)
res.created()	201	res.created(data)
res.noContent()	204	-
res.badRequest()	400	res.badRequest(error)
res.unauthorized()	401	res.unauthorized(error)
res.forbidden()	403	res.forbidden(error)
res.notFound()	404	res.notFound(error)
res.methodNotAllowed()	405	res.methodNotAllowed(error)
res.unprocessableEntity()	422	res.unprocessableEntity(error)
res.internalServerError()	500	res.internalServerError(error)
res.badGateway()	502	res.badGateway(error)
res.serviceUnavailable()	503	res.serviceUnavailable(error)
res.gatewayTimeout()	504	res.gatewayTimeout(error)