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Catch unhandled errors and promise rejections in your Electron app
Catch unhandled errors and promise rejections in your Electron app
You can use this module directly in both the main and renderer process.
npm install electron-unhandled
Requires Electron 30 or later.
import unhandled from 'electron-unhandled';
unhandled();
You probably want to call this both in the main
process and any renderer
processes to catch all possible errors.
Note: At minimum, this function must be called in the main
process.
Type: object
Note: Options can only be specified in the main
process.
Type: Function
Default: console.error
Custom logger that receives the error.
Can be useful if you for example integrate with Sentry.
Type: boolean
Default: Only in production
Present an error dialog to the user.
Type: Function
Default: undefined
When specified, the error dialog will include a Report…
button, which when clicked, executes the given function with the error as the first argument.
import unhandled from 'electron-unhandled';
import {openNewGitHubIssue, debugInfo} from 'electron-util';
unhandled({
reportButton: error => {
openNewGitHubIssue({
user: 'sindresorhus',
repo: 'electron-unhandled',
body: `\`\`\`\n${error.stack}\n\`\`\`\n\n---\n\n${debugInfo()}`
});
}
});
Example of how the GitHub issue will look like.
Log an error. This does the same as with caught unhandled errors.
It will use the same options specified in the unhandled()
call or the defaults.
import {logError} from 'electron-unhandled';
logError(new Error('🦄'));
Type: Error
The error to log.
Type: object
Type: string
Default: ${appName} encountered an error
The title of the error dialog.
FAQs
Catch unhandled errors and promise rejections in your Electron app
The npm package electron-unhandled receives a total of 4,504 weekly downloads. As such, electron-unhandled popularity was classified as popular.
We found that electron-unhandled demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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