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ask-on-exception
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When you encounter some un-handled exception and you don't know the reason, you would enter the error message to URL bar of your browser. This npm module does it automatically.
require('ask-on-exception');
var a;
console.log(a.foo); // Error! No member 'foo' for undefined.
Distributed under MIT License
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Ask error message directly on exception
The npm package ask-on-exception receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, ask-on-exception popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that ask-on-exception demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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