@sentry/core

What is @sentry/core?

The @sentry/core package is part of the Sentry SDK for JavaScript, which is designed for real-time monitoring and tracking of application health, errors, and performance issues. It provides the core functionalities needed for initializing and configuring Sentry in your application, handling exceptions, and capturing messages and events.

What are @sentry/core's main functionalities?

Initialization and Configuration

This feature allows you to initialize Sentry in your application with your project's DSN (Data Source Name). It is the first step in integrating Sentry into your project for error tracking and performance monitoring.

Sentry.init({ dsn: 'YOUR_DSN_HERE' });

Capturing Exceptions

This feature enables you to capture exceptions in your code and send them to Sentry for monitoring and analysis. It helps in identifying and debugging errors in your application.

try { myFunction(); } catch (e) { Sentry.captureException(e); }

Capturing Messages

This feature allows you to capture custom messages or log messages in Sentry. It can be used for tracking custom events or information that is not necessarily an error.

Sentry.captureMessage('Something went wrong');

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logrocket

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bugsnag

Bugsnag provides error monitoring and application stability management. It offers features for capturing and tracking errors, diagnosing issues, and improving app stability. Bugsnag is similar to @sentry/core in its core functionalities of error tracking and reporting but also emphasizes application stability metrics and trends.

README

Sentry JavaScript SDK Core

This package contains interface definitions, base classes and utilities for building Sentry JavaScript SDKs, like @sentry/node or @sentry/browser.

Overview

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Specializing the Client

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Implementing the Backend

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Exporting the Public Interface

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General Advice

• A word on overloading functions
• Differences for native backends