Pro Express.js

CHAPTER 17

Domain and Express.js

The domain module is a core Node.js module (http://nodejs.org/api/domain.html) that aids developers in tracking and isolating errors, often a daunting task, through the use of domains. Think of domains as a smarter version of try/catch statements¹.

Defining the Problem

To illustrate the hurdle that asynchronous code might introduce to error handling and debugging, look at this synchronous code that prints “Custom Error: Fail!” as we would expect:

try {  throw new Error('Fail!');} catch (e) {  console.log('Custom Error: ' + e.message);}

Now, let’s add asynchronous code in the form of the setTimeout() function