@gpa/http-status-codes

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Requirements
3. Usage
4. API

Installation

1# Optional: install Typescript
2npm install -D typescript @types/node
3# Install the library
4npm install @gpa/http-status-codes

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18

• typescript >= 5.0 (optional)

Usage

1import { HttpStatusCode, HttpErrorStatusCode, HttpSuccessfulStatusCode } from '@gpa/http-status-codes';
2
3function expressHandler(req, res) {
4  res.status(HttpStatusCode.Created_201).send({ /* ... */ });
5}
6
7// Accept any 4xx or 5xx status code
8function sendErrorResponse(res, status: HttpErrorStatusCode, body) {
9  res.status(status).send(body);
10}
11
12// Accept any 2xx status code
13function sendSuccessResponse(res, status: HttpSuccessfulStatusCode, body) {
14  res.status(status).send(body);
15}

API

HttpStatusCode

Type: Enum (Record<string, number>)

Contains all the valid status codes according to RFC9110.

Http{Information,Successful,Redirection,ClientError,ServerError,Error}StatusCode

Type: number

These types are subsets of HttpStatusCode and each one is a union of all the status codes included in the given class (Information: all 1xx status codes, Successful: all 2xx status codes, etc.). HttpErrorStatusCode includes all the 4xx and 5xx status codes.

isValidStatusCode(value): boolean

Type: (value: number) => value is HttpStatusCode

This type guard returns true if the given value is a valid status code.

isValid{Information,Successful,Redirection,ClientError,ServerError,Error}StatusCode(value): boolean

Type: (value: number) => value is Http{Information,Successful,Redirection,ClientError,ServerError,Error}StatusCode

These type guards return true if the given value is a status code included in the given class. isValidErrorStatusCode returns true if the given value is a 4xx or 5xx status code.