Middleware

Route middleware

Middleware with the REST API are just the usual Express middleware. You may define a list of middleware to run before a route using the .middleware() method on a route instance:

import { route } from '@tensei/core'

route('Download invoices')
    .post()
    .path('users/invoices/downloads')
    .middleware([async (request, response, next) => {
        if (! request.user.invoices) {
            return response.status(401).json({
                message: 'You are not authorized to download invoices.'
            })
        }

        next()
    }])
    .handle((request, response) => request.users.invoices)

You may also define middleware on existing routes. To get an existing route, for example those generated by tensei, you may use the getRoute() method. A good place to do this would be in the .register() hook:

import { tensei } from '@tensei/core'

tensei()
    .register(({ getRoute }) => {
        getRoute('createComments')
            ?.middleware([...])
    })

Global middleware

Since middleware use the underlying express server, you may define middleware directly on the express instance. A good place to do this would be the .register() hook:

import { tensei } from '@tensei/core'
const pino = require('express-pino-logger')()

tensei()
    .register(({ app }) => {
        app.use(pino())
    })

Route middleware

Global middleware

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