☹ errorface

Express middleware for showing detailed error information when errors happen in your app.

Inspired by phperror.net.

Example

Visit the example error page to see it in action.

Installation

npm install errorface

Usage

express = require "express"
errorface = require "errorface"

# Create your express app
app = express()

# Register your routes
app.get "/", (req, res) ->
    res.send "Hello World"

app.get "/error", (req, res, next) ->
    app.doesntExist()

app.get "/*", (req, res) -> throw new Error("Not Found")

# Register the errorHandler middleware after your routes.
app.use errorface.errorHandler()

# Start your app
app.listen 3000

Advanced Usage

You can extend the middleware with a couple options, here are the defaults:

# Default options
options =
    # Output to console.log
    log: console.log
    # We don't output errors to log unless you want to
    logErrors: false
    # We use Mustache to render templates by default
    templateFunc: Mustache.render
    # You can pass a string in as a template
    errorPageTemplate: null
    # Or, you can pass a path to a file to use as the template
    errorPageTemplatePath: __dirname + "/views/errorPage.stache"
    # If you want to twiddle with the data before it gets sent to the template
    preProcessTemplateData: (data) -> data

# Just pass them to the errorHandler when you register with your express app
app.use errorface.errorHandler(options)

Here is an example of the data that gets sent to the template

{
   "headLine":{
      "type":"description",
      "details":{
         "error":"Error",
         "message":"Not Found"
      }
   },
   "stack":[
      {
         "level":1,
         "trace":{
            "type":"file",
            "details":{
               "method":"init",
               "file":"''/projects/errorface/test/util/testServer.coffee",
               "fileHash":"2c57b3f110c76c5348e3e03296430f6b",
               "fileRelative":"/test/util/testServer.coffee",
               "line":18,
               "column":13
            }
         },
         "focused":"throw new Error(\"Not Found\");",
         "file":[
            {
               "num":14,
               "isFocus":false,
               "line":"    app.get(\"/error\", function(req, res, next) {"
            }
         ]
      }
   ],
   "lines":[
      {
         "type":"description",
         "details":{
            "error":"Error",
            "message":"Not Found"
         }
      },
      {
         "type":"file",
         "details":{
            "method":"init",
            "file":"''/projects/errorface/test/util/testServer.coffee",
            "fileHash":"2c57b3f110c76c5348e3e03296430f6b",
            "fileRelative":"/test/util/testServer.coffee",
            "line":18,
            "column":13
         }
      },
      {
         "type":"file",
         "details":{
            "method":"callbacks",
            "file":"''/projects/errorface/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js",
            "fileHash":"ba7d97ee1f59f2aa0920257deb060e46",
            "fileRelative":"[module]/express/lib/router/index.js",
            "line":162,
            "column":11
         }
      }
   ],
   "projectDirectory":"''/projects/errorface"
}