Modularizing our middleware

Let's carry out this refactoring process in a new branch called create-user/refactor-modules:

$ git checkout -b create-user/refactor-modules

Then, create a directory at src/middlewares; this is where we will store all of our middleware modules. Inside it, create four files—one for each middleware function:

$ mkdir -p src/middlewares && cd src/middlewares$ touch check-empty-payload.js \  check-content-type-is-set.js \  check-content-type-is-json.js \  error-handler.js

Then, move the middleware functions from src/index.js into their corresponding file. For example, the checkEmptyPayload function should be moved to src/middlewares/check-empty-payload.js. Then, at the end of each module, export the function as the default ...

Get Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.