Middleware example app

loopback-example-middleware

$ git clone git@github.com:strongloop/loopback-example-middleware.git
$ cd loopback-example-middleware
$ npm install
$ node .

• How do you serve static content via static middleware?

How do you serve static content via static middleware?

1. Add static middleware to the files property in middleware.json
2. Delete server/boot/root.js.
3. Create client/index.html
4. Start the server via node . and browse to localhost:3000. You should see hello world being served.

How do you create a custom error message for all errors?

1. Create a single function that all errors are passed to.
2. Set app.get('remoting').errorHandler to call a custom error handler.
3. Create a custom error middleware to handle errors not thrown by the loopback.rest() middleware.

Note: you must register your custom error handler in the middleware.json config file.

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