reshelper
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RESHELPER
Reshelper provides a simple way of returning basic REST API responses.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/reshelper
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Installation
Package is available at: https://www.npmjs.com/package/reshelper
Use package manager to install
npm i reshelper
Now go to your main file (app.js / index.js) of node project. and set code shown below.
const resHelper = require('reshelper');
app.use(resHelper);
Yes that's it.
Usage
Success response
router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
return res.data({foo: 'bar'});
});
It will Generate the response shown below:
{
"code": 200,
"success": true,
"data": {
"foo": "bar"
},
"error": null,
"message": ""
}
Success response with a message and code.
if your data object contains "code" key, It will consider it as response code.
Your response status code will be changed to given code. You can ignore it by setting .env
variable RES_HALPER_IGNORE_STATUS_CODE=true
router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
const data = {foo: 'bar', code: 201}
return res.data(data, 'Data found.');
});
It will Generate the response shown below:
{
"code": 201,
"success": true,
"data": {
"foo": "bar",
"code": 201
},
"error": null,
"message": "Data found."
}
Error response
router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
return res.error(new Error('Anything happen'))
});
It will Generate the response shown below:
{
"code": 500,
"success": false,
"data": null,
"error": {
"message": "Anything happen",
"stack": "Error: Anything happen\n at app\\routes\\index.js:9:20\n at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\layer.js:95:5)\n at next (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\route.js:137:13)\n at Route.dispatch (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\route.js:112:3)\n at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\layer.js:95:5)\n at app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:281:22\n at Function.process_params (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:335:12)\n at next (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:275:10)\n at Function.handle (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:174:3)\n at router (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:47:12)"
},
"message": "Anything happen"
}
Error response with custom code
router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
return res.error(new Error('Anything happen'), 400)
});
It will Generate the response shown below:
you can always remove "stack" from response, By simply setting the .env
variable RES_HALPER_DISABLE_ERR_STACK=false
.
{
"code": 400,
"success": false,
"data": null,
"error": {
"message": "Anything happen",
"stack": "Error: Anything happen\n at app\\routes\\index.js:9:20\n at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\layer.js:95:5)\n at next (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\route.js:137:13)\n at Route.dispatch (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\route.js:112:3)\n at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\layer.js:95:5)\n at app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:281:22\n at Function.process_params (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:335:12)\n at next (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:275:10)\n at Function.handle (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:174:3)\n at router (app\\node_modules\\express\\lib\\router\\index.js:47:12)"
},
"message": "Anything happen"
}
Message response
router.put('/', (req, res, next) => {
return res.message('Data updated.');
});
It will Generate the response shown below:
{
"code": 200,
"success": true,
"data": null,
"error": null,
"message": "Data updated."
}
Methods
return res.data({foo: 'bar'});
return res.data({foo: 'bar'}, 'Your Message'); // with custom message
return res.data({foo: 'bar', code: 201}, 'Your Message'); // with custom code
return res.message('Your Message');
return res.message('Your Message', 200); // with custom code
return res.error(new Error('Anything happen'));
return res.error(new Error('Anything happen'), 400); // with custom code
Some ENV variables
| Variable | Description | | --- | --- | | RES_HALPER_IGNORE_STATUS_CODE | Boolean (default: false)true: will ignore status code, always set to 200. false: Will set status code according| | RES_HALPER_ERR_CONSOLE | Boolean (default: false)true: will display error in console. false: Will disable error console| | RES_HALPER_DISABLE_ERR_STACK | Boolean (default: false)true: will hide stack from error in response. false: Will display error stack in response|
Contributing
If you want to contribute in any of these ways:
- Give your ideas or feedback
- Enhance the code or its documentation
- Point out a problem or issue
- Question something
- Help in any other way
You can (and should) open an issue or even a pull request!
Thanks for your interest in contributing to this repo!
Author
Hemin Tailor ([email protected])
License
This code is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more info.