I have been working on developing a series of RESTful API services using Node.js Express. Whenever an error occurs, it is accompanied by a stack-trace with the following message:
Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided.
I have gone through various discussions on Stack Overflow regarding the necessary code in app.js to handle errors:
// Development error handler
// Display stack trace
if (app.get('env') === 'development') {
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: err
});
});
}
// Production error handler
// Prevent leaking stack traces to users
app.use(function(err, req, res, next) {
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.render('error', {
message: err.message,
error: {}
});
});
However, most suggestions on StackOverflow emphasize using Vue with Jade for default engines.
As this is an internal RESTful API service, I would like to avoid incorporating a default engine that outputs error responses in Jade.
Any recommendations?
Below is an example stack-trace from my RESTful API service:
[09:22:42] info: GET /api/v1/archives/google/folders 401 130ms
Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided.
at new View (/Users/jeff/github/jeff00/act-archive/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:61:11)
at Function.render (/Users/jeff/github/jeff00/act-archive/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:570:12)
at ServerResponse.render (/Users/jeff/github/jeff00/act-archive/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:1008:7)
at /Users/jeff/github/jeff00/act-archive/app.js:137:7
at Layer.handle_error (/Users/jeff/github/jeff00/act-archive/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:71:5)