How to add a middleware to catch all success requests on express? - node.js

Question

I'm trying to log the user activity on my api to a mongo collection. The problem is, when I add a middleware above the routes, I can log the request. But at that time the middleware have no way to know whether the request is a success or a failure. If I add the middleware below the routes it won't get called.
Now I run res.send() at the end of each route function. If I remove this and try to set only the status, the api get's stuck (From the front it says pending and the api does nothing). Any idea how to do this?
My app.js:
import express from 'express';
import logger from 'morgan';
import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import helmet from 'helmet';
import filter from 'content-filter';
import cors from 'cors';
import dotenv from 'dotenv';
import mongoose from 'mongoose';
import Raven from 'raven';
import { createFirebaseAuth } from 'express-firebase-auth';
import routes from './routes';
import { DB_CONFIG } from './config';
import firebase from './lib/firebase';
import permissions from './middleware/permissions';
import userLogs from './middleware/userLog';
// Setup environment config
dotenv.config();
// Initiate the app
const app = express();
// Connect to the database
mongoose.connect(DB_CONFIG.uri, DB_CONFIG.options);
mongoose.Promise = global.Promise;
// Configure error reporting
if (process.env.RAVEN_DSN) {
Raven.config(process.env.RAVEN_DSN).install();
app.use(Raven.requestHandler());
}
// Apply the middleware
app.use(filter());
app.use(helmet.xssFilter());
app.use(helmet.hidePoweredBy());
app.use(helmet.noSniff());
app.use(cors());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(logger('dev'));
// Add the firebase authenticatior
const firebaseAuth = createFirebaseAuth({
firebase,
checkEmailVerified: true,
checkEmailVerifiedIgnoredUrls: ['/users', '/users/updatepassword']
});
app.use(firebaseAuth);
// Add the permissions module
app.use(permissions);
// Add the routes
app.use('/', routes);
// Catch 404 and forward to error handler
app.use((req, res, next) => {
const err = new Error('Not Found');
err.status = 404;
next(err);
});
// The user logs module
app.use(userLogs);
// Configure error reporting
if (process.env.RAVEN_DSN) {
app.use(Raven.errorHandler());
}
// Error handler
app.use((err, req, res) => {
// set locals, only providing error in development
res.locals.message = err.message;
res.locals.error = req.app.get('env') === 'development' ? err : {};
// render the error page
res.status(err.status || 500);
res.send({ error: 'Something failed!' });
});
// Setup the ip and port
app.set('port', process.env.APP_PORT || 8000);
app.set('ip', process.env.APP_IP || '127.0.0.1');
// Start the app
app.listen(app.get('port'), () => {
/* eslint-disable no-console */
console.log('***************************************************************');
console.log(`Server started on ${Date(Date.now())}`);
console.log(`Server is listening on port ${app.get('port')}`);
console.log('***************************************************************');
});
module.exports = app;
The line app.use(userLogs); is where I attach the logs.
My routes file look like this:
const router = express.Router();
const routeHandler = ({ path, callback, method }) => {
router.route(path)[method](async (req, res, next) => {
try {
await callback(req, res, next);
} catch (error) {
next(error);
}
});
};
routeHandler({ path: '/companies', callback: createCompany, method: 'post' });
routeHandler({ path: '/companies', callback: updateCompany, method: 'put' });
Let's take the updateCompany function:
export const updateCompany = async (req, res) => {
const companyData = req.body;
// Get the data and update the company
res.send({ message: 'Success!' });
};
UserLogs middleware:
const userLogs = async (req, res, next) => {
console.log(req);
console.log('--------------------------------------------------------------------------');
};