/koa-within-express

Tiny example of embedding a Koa application within an Express application

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koa-within-express

A recent change to Koa makes interop with Express much easier. This repo contains a tiny example of how to have Express handle some routes, pass control to Koa, and then have Koa pass control back to Express if it can't handle a request.

Notes

  • Must override ctx.onerror to catch errors and pass them back to Express for handling
  • Be sure not to call next if Koa handled the response
  • Need some way of detecting if some handler in the Koa middleware stack is trying to send a response. Here the approach is to null out res.statusCode and see if it was set after the middleware stack has run.
  • Be sure to reset the response status code to 200 if not handling the response