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So in express, we can have a chain of middleware, copies an example:

middleware = function(req, res){
  res.send('GET request to homepage');
});

app.get('/', middleware, function (req, res) {
  res.send('GET request to homepage');
});

What's the equivalent way to write this in koa2 please ? I'm thinking of using it for the route, for each route i want to have a middleware to check if user is already logged in.

Thanks !

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If you're simply interested in making sure a middlware runs for every route, all you have to do is register the middleware before you register your routing middelware.

app.use(middleware);

As long as you call this before you 'use' your router, it will be called for every request. Just make sure you call the next function. This is how your middleware might look like:

function middleware(ctx, next) {

   // Authenticate user

   // Eventually call this
   return next();

}
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  • so i can chain middleware in this way as well ? How about i just want to apply middleware to certain routes ? – user3552178 Sep 13 '17 at 11:58
  • well, it's in the doc, router.use(session(), authorize()); // use middleware only with given path router.use('/users', userAuth()); app.use(router.routes()); – user3552178 Sep 13 '17 at 14:32