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makeerror
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A library to make errors. Makes an Error constructor function with the signature:
function(message, data)
You'll typically do something like:
var makeError = require('makeerror')
var UnknownFileTypeError = makeError(
'UnknownFileTypeError',
'The specified type is not known.'
)
var er = UnknownFileTypeError()
er
will have a prototype chain that ensures:
er instanceof Error
er instanceof UnknownFileTypeError
You can also do var er = new UnknownFileTypeError()
if you really like the
new
keyword.
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A library to make errors.
The npm package makeerror receives a total of 13,264,938 weekly downloads. As such, makeerror popularity was classified as popular.
We found that makeerror 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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