minor improvements

boilerplates/controller.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require('dotenv').config();
 const logger = require("../utils/logger")(module);
 
 const typedefs = require("../typedefs");

controllers/auth.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require('dotenv').config();
 const { authInstance } = require("../axios");
 
 const typedefs = require("../typedefs");

controllers/playlists.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require('dotenv').config();
 const logger = require("../utils/logger")(module);
 
 const typedefs = require("../typedefs");

index.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require('dotenv').config();
+require('dotenv-flow').config();
 const express = require('express');
 const session = require("express-session");
 const cors = require('cors');

package.json

@@ -22,13 +22,12 @@
     "connect-redis": "^6.1.3",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.6",
     "cors": "^2.8.5",
-    "dotenv": "^16.0.2",
+    "dotenv-flow": "^3.2.0",
     "express": "^4.18.1",
     "express-session": "^1.17.3",
     "express-validator": "^6.14.2",
-    "got": "^12.1.0",
     "helmet": "^5.1.0",
-    "redis": "^4.2.0",
+    "redis": "^4.3.0",
     "winston": "^3.8.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {

utils/jsonTransformer.js

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/**
+ * Returns a single string of the values of all keys in the given JSON object, even nested ones.
+ * 
+ * @param {*} obj 
+ * @returns
+ */
+const getNestedValuesString = (obj) => {
+	let values = [];
+	for (key in obj) {
+		if (typeof obj[key] !== "object") {
+			values.push(obj[key]);
+		} else {
+			values = values.concat(getNestedValuesString(obj[key]));
+		}
+	}
+
+	return values.join();
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+	getNestedValuesString
+}

utils/logger.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require('dotenv').config();
 const path = require("path");
 
 const { createLogger, transports, config, format } = require('winston');

validators/index.js

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 const { validationResult } = require("express-validator");
 
 const typedefs = require("../typedefs");
+const { getNestedValuesString } = require("../utils/jsonTransformer");
 
 /**
+ * Refer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58848625/access-messages-in-express-validator
+ * 
  * @param {typedefs.Req} req 
  * @param {typedefs.Res} res 
  * @param {typedefs.Next} next 
@@ -18,7 +21,8 @@ const validate = (req, res, next) => {
 	}));
 
 	return res.status(400).json({
-		message: extractedErrors,
+		message: getNestedValuesString(extractedErrors),
+		errors: extractedErrors
 	})
 }