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Small module that makes sure your catch, caught an actual error and not a programming mistake or assertion
Small module that makes sure your catch, caught an actual error and not a programming mistake or assertion.
npm install safety-catch
Triggers an unhandled error in the next tick, when you pass it an SyntaxError, TypeError, AssertionError and other builtins.
const safetyCatch = require('safety-catch')
try {
foo.bar()
} catch (err) {
// Was this a programming mistake and should you crash your program?
// Ask the safety catch
safetyCatch(err)
console.log('Actual error')
}
MIT
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Small module that makes sure your catch, caught an actual error and not a programming mistake or assertion
The npm package safety-catch receives a total of 2,891 weekly downloads. As such, safety-catch popularity was classified as popular.
We found that safety-catch 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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