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This library is meant to help to deal with errors lifecycle in JavaScript.
Error handling is a very common problem in every product. However, the language does not provide enough utils to deal with error management.
The work done in this library is inspired by personal experience while implementing more complex JavaScript projects and some other libraries such as verror.
$ npm install bugsy
import * as bugsy from 'bugsy';
const RAN_AWAY = 'RanAwayError';
const THROW_MISSED = 'ThrowMissedError';
const CAPTURE = 'CaptureError';
function capture(name) {
const r = Math.random();
if (r < 0.3) {
throw new bugsy.Bugsy({
name: THROW_MISSED,
message: 'Throw totally missed',
});
}
if (r < 0.6) {
throw new bugsy.Bugsy({
name: RAN_AWAY,
message: `${name} ran away, again`,
metadata: {
direction: 'north',
},
});
}
throw new Error();
}
function handler(func) {
try {
func();
} catch (error) {
console.error(bugsy.getFullStack(error));
}
}
handler(() => {
while (true) {
try {
capture('Abra');
} catch (error) {
switch (true) {
// Expected error
case error.name === THROW_MISSED: {
console.log('I can try again...');
break;
}
// Expected error
case error.name === RAN_AWAY: {
const { direction } = bugsy.getMetadata(error);
console.log(`Oh well... I should head ${direction}`);
return;
}
// Unexpected error
default:
throw new bugsy.Bugsy({
name: CAPTURE,
message: 'Capture failed',
cause: error,
severity: 1,
});
}
}
}
});
FAQs
Helper to deal with errors lifecycle in javascript
We found that bugsy 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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