Error handling in Express is done using middleware. But this middleware has special properties. The error handling middleware are defined in the same way as other middleware functions, except that error-handling functions MUST have four arguments instead of three – err, req, res, next. For example, to send a response on any error, we can use −
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```
app.use((err, req, res, next) = {
const statusCode = err.statusCode || 500;
res.status(statusCode).json({
success: 0,
message: err.message,
stack: err.stack
})
})
```
Till now we were handling errors in the routes itself. The error handling middleware allows us to separate our error logic and send responses accordingly. The next() method we discussed in middleware takes us to next middleware/route handler.
For error handling, we have the next(err) function. A call to this function skips all middleware and matches us to the next error handler for that route.
