From dfa2ac5e9fc31e2120c4148737efdb3304036d03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ioannis Dressos <96877388+idressos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 12:14:55 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add recover middleware to gracefully handle handler panics

---
 router/router.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/router/router.go b/router/router.go
index 59d352e..473903a 100644
--- a/router/router.go
+++ b/router/router.go
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ func (t *TemplateRegistry) Render(w io.Writer, name string, data interface{}, c
 func New(tmplDir fs.FS, extraData map[string]interface{}, secret [64]byte) *echo.Echo {
 	e := echo.New()
 
+	// Recover from panics in any middleware or handler so a single bad request
+	// cannot take down the connection with an unhandled stack trace.
+	e.Use(middleware.Recover())
+
 	cookiePath := util.GetCookiePath()
 
 	cookieStore := sessions.NewCookieStore(secret[:32], secret[32:])