Learning Node.js Development

Callback errors

In this section we'll learn how to handle errors inside of your callback functions, because as you might guess things don't always go as planned. For example, the current version of our app has a few really big flaws, if I try to fetch weather using node app.js with the a flag for a zip that doesn't exist, like 000000, the program crashes, which is a really big problem. It's going off. It's fetching the data, eventually that data will come back and we get an error, as shown here:

It's trying to fetch properties that don't exist, such as body.results[0].formatted_address is not a real property, and this is a big problem.

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