@eropple/nestjs-correlation-id

This package contains a single global middleware that operates on the X-Correlation-Id header. If it doesn't exist on the incoming request, it generates a random UUID and attaches it to the X-Correlation-Id header on the request (http.IncomingMessage) and the response (http.ServerResponse) objects within the NestJS request pipeline. If it already exists, the existing value is copied to the response's headers.

Unlike other packages that do the same thing, this doesn't allow you to change the header name. That's because other packages in my @eropple/nestjs-* ecosystem rely on X-Correlation-Id and this is intended to be used in conjunction with them.. If you're not going to go use @eropple/nestjs-data-sec or @eropple/nestjs-auth, you probably don't care - but almost everybody uses X-Correlation-Id or X-Request-Id, so this still may work for you.

This is tested with Express; as it's a middleware it probably won't work with Fastify. If somebody wants to add a Fastify version, pull requests are gratefully accepted.

Installation

yarn install @eropple/nestjs-correlation-id

Usage

Add this as the first middleware in your global middleware chain. (That way, anything that comes after it--like, )

import { CorrelationIdMiddleware } from "@eropple/nestjs-correlation-id";

async function init() {
  const app: INestApplication = /* ... */

  app.use(CorrelationIdMiddleware());
  /* add other middleware, interceptors, etc. */

  await app.listen(3000);
}

By default, this uses uuid/v4 to generate a value, but you can do whatever you want by passing a () => string function to it. UUIDs tend to be the most common option, though.