Lesson 04 · 10 min
Error handling
One error handler for the whole app and no stack traces leaking out.
Express treats middleware with four arguments (err, req, res, next) as an error handler. It goes last. Any next(err) or error thrown in sync code lands there. In Express 4 you have to pass errors from async functions to next yourself.
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