Add koa plugin to eggjs framework

Question

I would like to add koa-validate to eggjs.

Code from koa-validate readme:

var koa = require('koa');
var app = koa();
var router = require('koa-router')();
require('koa-validate')(app);

app.use(require('koa-body')({multipart:true , formidable:{keepExtensions:true}}));
app.use(router.routes()).use(router.allowedMethods());

So I tried to add it as middleware as described in the eggjs docs:

// app/middleware/validate.js

const validate = require('koa-validate');

module.exports = (options, app) => {
    validate(app);
    return function session(ctx, next) {
        return next();
    }
}

But what I am actually looking for is to load the plugin 'on boot' and have the app object to add the validate plugin. Do you have any idea where I should place this?

thank you!

Answer 1

Okay, I solved it myself:

Add /app.js for life-cycle hooks and add the following code:

const validate = require('koa-validate');
class AppBootHook {
    constructor(app) {
        this.app = app;
        validate(app);
    }
}
module.exports = AppBootHook;

Instead of the documented this.checkQuery() the function is available as this.ctx.checkQuery.

Maybe this will help someone else.