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+import camelCase from 'lodash/camelCase';
+import startCase from 'lodash/startCase';
+
+const toSentence = (arr: string[]) => arr
+  .reduce(
+    (prev, curr, i) => prev + curr + (i === arr.length - 2 ? ' and ' : ', '),
+    '',
+  )
+  .slice(0, -2);
+
+type Errors = {
+  [key: string]: string[]
+}
+
+const buildErrorMessage = (errors: Errors) => {
+  const individualErrors = Object.keys(errors).map(
+    (attribute) => `${startCase(camelCase(attribute))} ${toSentence(
+      errors[attribute],
+    )}`,
+  );
+
+  return toSentence(individualErrors);
+};
+
+const httpErrorMessages: { code: number, name: string, description: string }[] = [
+  {
+    code: 100,
+    name: 'Continue',
+    description: 'The server has received the request headers, and the client should proceed to send the request body',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 101,
+    name: 'Switching Protocols',
+    description: 'The requester has asked the server to switch protocols',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 103,
+    name: 'Checkpoint',
+    description: 'Used in the resumable requests proposal to resume aborted PUT or POST requests',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 200,
+    name: 'OK',
+    description: 'The request is OK (this is the standard response for successful HTTP requests)',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 201,
+    name: 'Created',
+    description: 'The request has been fulfilled',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 202,
+    name: 'Accepted',
+    description: 'The request has been accepted for processing',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 203,
+    name: 'Non-Authoritative Information',
+    description: 'The request has been successfully processed',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 204,
+    name: 'No Content',
+    description: 'The request has been successfully processed',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 205,
+    name: 'Reset Content',
+    description: 'The request has been successfully processed',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 206,
+    name: 'Partial Content',
+    description: 'The server is delivering only part of the resource due to a range header sent by the client',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 400,
+    name: 'Bad Request',
+    description: 'The request cannot be fulfilled due to bad syntax',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 401,
+    name: 'Unauthorized',
+    description: 'The request was a legal request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 402,
+    name: 'Payment Required',
+    description: 'Reserved for future use',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 403,
+    name: 'Forbidden',
+    description: 'The request was a legal request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 404,
+    name: 'Not Found',
+    description: 'The requested page could not be found but may be available again in the future',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 405,
+    name: 'Method Not Allowed',
+    description: 'A request was made of a page using a request method not supported by that page',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 406,
+    name: 'Not Acceptable',
+    description: 'The server can only generate a response that is not accepted by the client',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 407,
+    name: 'Proxy Authentication Required',
+    description: 'The client must first authenticate itself with the proxy',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 408,
+    name: 'Request',
+    description: ' Timeout\tThe server timed out waiting for the request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 409,
+    name: 'Conflict',
+    description: 'The request could not be completed because of a conflict in the request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 410,
+    name: 'Gone',
+    description: 'The requested page is no longer available',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 411,
+    name: 'Length Required',
+    description: 'The "Content-Length" is not defined. The server will not accept the request without it',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 412,
+    name: 'Precondition',
+    description: ' Failed. The precondition given in the request evaluated to false by the server',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 413,
+    name: 'Request Entity Too Large',
+    description: 'The server will not accept the request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 414,
+    name: 'Request-URI Too Long',
+    description: 'The server will not accept the request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 415,
+    name: 'Unsupported Media Type',
+    description: 'The server will not accept the request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 416,
+    name: 'Requested Range Not Satisfiable',
+    description: 'The client has asked for a portion of the file',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 417,
+    name: 'Expectation Failed',
+    description: 'The server cannot meet the requirements of the Expect request-header field',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 500,
+    name: 'Internal Server Error',
+    description: 'A generic error message',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 501,
+    name: 'Not Implemented',
+    description: 'The server either does not recognize the request method',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 502,
+    name: 'Bad Gateway',
+    description: 'The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and received an invalid response from the upstream server',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 503,
+    name: 'Service Unavailable',
+    description: 'The server is currently unavailable (overloaded or down)',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 504,
+    name: 'Gateway Timeout',
+    description: 'The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and did not receive a timely response from the upstream server',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 505,
+    name: 'HTTP Version Not Supported',
+    description: 'The server does not support the HTTP protocol version used in the request',
+  },
+  {
+    code: 511,
+    name: 'Network Authentication Required',
+    description: 'The client needs to auth',
+  },
+];
+
+export { buildErrorMessage, httpErrorMessages };