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A hapi plugin to return an error view for web requests, providing more details of the issue. hapi-dev-errors will give you the exact file where the error happend and a nice error stacktrace within the browser. Skip the extra look at your command line to catch the issue's location.

hapi-dev-errors seamlessly integrates Youch to show the error details.

Besides the web view, hapi-dev-errors prints pretty error details to the terminal. This is nice when running your hapi server as an API. Printing error details to the console is enabled by default. To disable the terminal error, use the toTerminal: false option.

This plugin uses async/await which requires Node.js v8 or newer.

Add hapi-dev-errors as a dependency to your project:

# NPM 5: this way is yours
npm i hapi-dev-errors

# NPM 4:
npm i -S hapi-dev-errors

Use the 1.3.2 release of hapi-dev-errors with hapi v16. Later versions are only compatible with hapi v17.

# NPM 5: this way is yours
npm i hapi-dev-errors@1.3.2

# NPM 4: use NPM shortcuts to (i)nstall and (-S)ave the module as a dependency
npm i -S hapi-dev-errors@1.3.2

Check out the examples directory and get an impression on how to configure hapi-dev-errors with the individual plugins options and how to customize the error view.

hapi-dev-errors is disabled by default to avoid leaking sensitive error details during production.

Enable the plugin by define a "truthy" value for the showErrors option.

The most straight forward way to register the hapi-dev-errors plugin:

await server.register({
    plugin: require('hapi-dev-errors'),
    options: {
      showErrors: process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
    }
})

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The following plugin options allow you to customize the default behavior of hapi-dev-errors:

• showErrors: (boolean), default: false — by default, the plugin is disabled and keeps hapi's default error handling behavior
• template: (string), no default — provide the template name that you want to render with h.view(template, errorData)
• toTerminal: (boolean), default: true — print pretty errors to the terminal as well (enabled by default)

await server.register({
    plugin: require('hapi-dev-errors'),
    options: {
        showErrors: process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production',
        template: 'my-error-view',
        toTerminal: true
    }
})

// went smooth like chocolate :)

hapi-dev-errors supports the template option while registering the plugin. Provide a template name to use your personal error template and not the default one shipped with hapi-dev-errors. In case you pass a string value for the template name, the view will be rendered with h.view(template, errorData).code(500).

Available properties to use in your custom error view:

• title: error title like Internal Server Error
• statusCode: HTTP response status code (always 500)
• message: error message, like Uncaught error: h.view(...).test is not a function
• method: HTTP request method, like GET
• url: URL request path, like /signup
• headers: HTTP request headers object, in key-value format
• payload: HTTP request payload, only available for HTTP methods other than GET, in key-value format
• stacktrace: error stacktrace

Do you miss a feature? Please don’t hesitate to create an issue with a short description of your desired addition to this plugin.

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