ExpressJS Series - Blocking Middlewares and Responding from the middleware

expressjs-blocking-responding-middleware-snippet.js

const myFirstMiddleware = function(req, res, next) {
 // Http request to server https://myexternalloggingserver.com/log
 someHTTPRequestLibrary.post('https://myexternalloggingserver.com/log', {body: req.path})
   .then((data)=>{
      next();
 }, (err) =>{
      res.status(500).send('Failed');
 });
};