NestJS · Senior · Question 62 of 75

How can Nest's `ValidationPipe` errors be made more useful to API clients?

✓Correct answer: Use exceptionFactory to return field-level errors in a consistent format (e.g. problem details with an errors array)
2Return a plain 500
3Return the raw class-validator objects including internals

Explanation

Stable error shapes let front ends show messages next to the right fields.

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