handle-api-error

• Micro package for handling api errors. Provides simple function to help with debugging errors within APIs

Installation

npm install handle-api-error

Usage

const handleApiError = require('handle-api-error');

try {
    // Do something
} catch {
    throw handleApiError(error, "Doing something", 506, true); // Returns an error 
}

API

handleApiError(error, message, statusCode, expose)

• Handles an API error.

Params:

• error: Error that has been caught, that will be handled
• message: String message to be displayed in the error
• statusCode: Number status code to be displayed in the error, corresponds to a HTTP status code, default 400
• expose: Boolean if the error should be exposed to the user, default true