{"id":32775,"date":"2016-02-17T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T11:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=32775"},"modified":"2016-02-17T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T11:46:28","slug":"what-are-middlewares-in-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/what-are-middlewares-in-express\/","title":{"rendered":"What are middlewares in express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Middleware is a simple javascript function with three parameters request, response and next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apart from handling http request it can perform the following tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manipulate request and response objects<\/li>\n<li>Perform isolated tasks<\/li>\n<li>Terminate request flow by sending response<\/li>\n<li>Pass the control to another middleware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We load middleware in express by use() of the express app.<\/p>\n<p>[code lang=&#8221;html&#8221;]var express = require(&#8216;express&#8217;);<br \/>\nvar app 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