Express.js 4 and domain module: why domain doesn't handle the error?

Question

I'm trying to familiarize myself with domain module. So, I created a study sample below:

var express = require('express')
var domain = require('domain')
var supertest = require('supertest')

describe('some', function() {
    it('some', function(done) {
      var app = express()
      app.use(function(req, res, next) {
        var d = domain.create();
        d.on('error', function(e) {
          console.log('here')
        });
        d.run(next)
      })
      app.use('*', function(req, res) {
        throw new Error()
        res.end()
      })
      supertest(app).get('/').expect(200, done)
    })
})

But, it doesn't work as I expected. Can somebody explain why it never reaches error callback?

Additional info:

$ npm list --depth=0
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]
$ node -v
v6.0.0

P.S.: it's deprecated, I know. But on the moment there is no alternatives and large codebase of projects which actually use it

Answer 1

The reason is that Express 4 is doing exception handling before your code with domain works, you can make sure that I am correct by adding following handler on bottom, it kinda wraps everything in try/catch and if there is no error handler prints error stack:

app.use(function (err, req, res, next) {
   console.log(err);
   res.end();
});