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bail
:warning: Throw a given error.
Install
This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported
instead of required.
npm:
npm install bail
Use
import {bail} from 'bail'
bail()
bail(new Error('failure'))
// Error: failure
// at repl:1:6
// at REPLServer.defaultEval (repl.js:154:27)
// …
API
This package exports the following identifiers: bail.
There is no default export.
bail([err])
Throw a given error.
Parameters
err(Error?) — Optional error.
Throws
Error— Given error, if any.
Related
License
Other packages similar to bail
ensure-error
While `ensure-error` is focused on ensuring that values are instances of Error, it shares the goal of simplifying error handling in JavaScript applications with `bail`. `ensure-error` can be used in conjunction with error handling mechanisms to ensure that all errors passed through the application's flow are properly instances of Error, complementing `bail`'s straightforward error throwing approach.
FAQs
Throw a given error
The npm package bail receives a total of 6,639,397 weekly downloads. As such, bail popularity was classified as popular.
We found that bail 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.
Package last updated on 26 Mar 2021
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