Node body validator

Makes parameters validation in Node.js a breeze. With promise chaining, you validate incoming requests straight away, data flows between controllers and models and errored requests are efficiently handled.

As an exemple, let's validate a login request.

// /controllers/userController

const RequestValidator = require('node-body-validator');
const handleError = require('../lib/handleError');
const userModel = require('../models/userModel');

const reqValidator = new RequestValidator('form');

exports.register = function (req, res) {
    reqValidator.validate(req, [
        { name: 'email', type: 'string', validator: v => v.pattern(/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,6}$/i), failMsg: 'email must be an email string' },
        { name: 'password', type: 'string', validator: v => v.minLength(8).maxLength(50), failMsg: 'password must be comprised between 8 and 50 chars' }
    ])
    then(
        post => userModel.create(post.email, post.password)
        .then(([id, token]) => res.status(201).json({ id, token }));
    )
    .catch(err => handleError(err, res));
};

Simple, expressive and beautifully powerful, right? Data flows thoughout your app.

Convinced? Let's explore all the possibilities in the next section.

Installation & usage

The module requires at least Node V6, appart from this, its install procedure is boringly conventional.

npm install --save node-body-validator

This validator is the pure Node.js version of the express-body-validator. The only difference between the them is that node-body-validator handles raw request object whereas with Express.js, bodyParser has taken care of the parsing.

Hence, this validator takes two parameters on instanciation:

• contentType that can be either form for application/x-www-form-urlencoded or json for application/json (you can also pass full value if you whish).
• maxBodySize is the maximum authorized size of the body in bytes. It defaults to 1MB. Promise is rejected if request is bigger than that.

const RequestValidator = require('node-body-validator');
const reqValidator = new RequestValidator('json', 10e6); // JSON encoding with body up to 10MB

Apart from that, the API is exactly the same as the other module. Check out the docs there.

Contributing

There's sure room for improvement, so feel free to hack around and submit PRs! Please just follow the style of the existing code, which is Airbnb's style with minor modifications.

To maintain things clear and visual, please follow the git commit template.