Improved interoperability with ES6 classes

HISTORY.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-Unreleased changes
+2.0.1 / 2025-11-20
 ==================
 
-  * improve toClassName function readability and JSDoc completeness
   * deps: use tilde notation for dependencies
   * deps: update statuses to 2.0.2
 

index.js

@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ function createError () {
 
 function createHttpErrorConstructor () {
   function HttpError () {
-    throw new TypeError('cannot construct abstract class')
+    if (this.constructor === HttpError) {
+      throw new TypeError('cannot construct abstract class')
+    }
   }
 
   inherits(HttpError, Error)

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "http-errors",
   "description": "Create HTTP error objects",
-  "version": "2.0.0",
+  "version": "2.0.1",
   "author": "Jonathan Ong <me@jongleberry.com> (http://jongleberry.com)",
   "contributors": [
     "Alan Plum <me@pluma.io>",

test/test.js

@@ -439,6 +439,28 @@ describe('HTTP Errors', function () {
     assert((new createError['500']()) instanceof createError.HttpError)
   })
 
+  it('should interoperate with ES6 classes', function () {
+    class MyHttpError extends createError.HttpError {
+      constructor () {
+        super()
+        this.name = 'MyHttpError'
+        this.message = 'ES6 class HTTPError'
+        this.status = 404
+        this.myProp = 'test'
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Testing PR#99: This line should not throw TypeError('cannot construct abstract class')
+    const err = new MyHttpError()
+    assert.strictEqual(err.name, 'MyHttpError')
+    assert.strictEqual(err.message, 'ES6 class HTTPError')
+    assert.strictEqual(err.status, 404)
+    assert.strictEqual(err.myProp, 'test')
+    /* eslint-disable-next-line node/no-deprecated-api */
+    assert.strictEqual(util.isError(err), true)
+    assert.strictEqual(createError.isHttpError(err), true)
+  })
+
   itUtilIsError('should support util.isError()', function () {
     /* eslint-disable node/no-deprecated-api */
     assert(util.isError(createError(404)))