Creating Your Own Express.js Middleware

Have you found yourself repeating the same code at the beginning of an Express.js route handler? Perhaps you want to log the path for each incoming request to your application or prevent a user from performing a certain operation. These are prime examples where a custom Express.js middleware would do the trick! Middleware in Express.js are a powerful, elegant way of handling common functionality in you applications. A couple of popular middleware that you’ve likely already used are body-parser (...

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