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JavaScript Introducing the Practice

Joseph Bertino
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@ 4:21, what does Guil mean by "the given message"?

@ 4:21 in this video, we are instructed to "set the error message to the given message." What is the given message in this case? Is it res.message or req.message?

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Brian Wright
Brian Wright
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Brian Wright
Brian Wright
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When an error is thrown, it will be passed as the err object in the global error handler app.use((err, req, res,next)). One of the properties of err object is err.message. This is the same as when you create an error with 'new Error("Error message here")'. In either of these cases, these will be what is described as the given error message.