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What's the role of the method-override middleware in Express 4?

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What is method override used for?

Method overriding, in object-oriented programming, is a language feature that allows a subclass or child class to provide a specific implementation of a method that is already provided by one of its superclasses or parent classes.

What is the purpose of Express middleware?

js is a routing and Middleware framework for handling the different routing of the webpage and it works between the request and response cycle. Middleware gets executed after the server receives the request and before the controller actions send the response.

What does middleware in Express access?

Express middleware refers to a set of functions that execute during the processing of HTTP requests received by an Express application. Middleware functions access the HTTP request and response objects. They either terminate the HTTP request or forward it for further processing to another middleware function.

How do I skip the middleware Express?

If we want to skip a middleware we can pass parameters to the middleware function and decide based on that parameter which middleware to call and which middleware to not call.


Since the Router object in Express 4 supports:

var router = require('express').Router(); router.delete('/route', function(req, res) {     //... };  router.put('/route', function(req, res) {     //... }; 

What use is there for method-override middleware? Can I safely remove it from my app.js and package.json?