stack-generator

What is stack-generator?

The stack-generator npm package is a utility for generating stack traces for JavaScript errors. It provides a way to capture, manipulate, and analyze stack traces, which can be useful for debugging and error handling in JavaScript applications.

What are stack-generator's main functionalities?

Generating stack traces

This feature allows developers to generate a stack trace at any point in their code. The `backtrace` method captures the current call stack and returns it as an array of stack frames.

const StackGenerator = require('stack-generator');
const stack = StackGenerator.backtrace();
console.log(stack);

Filtering stack traces

This feature enables developers to filter out specific stack frames from the stack trace based on certain conditions, such as excluding frames from specific functions.

const StackGenerator = require('stack-generator');
const stack = StackGenerator.backtrace();
const filteredStack = stack.filter(frame => frame.functionName !== 'FunctionToIgnore');
console.log(filteredStack);

Other packages similar to stack-generator

error-stack-parser

This package also parses JavaScript stack traces. It extracts structured information from stack traces generated by different browsers, providing a more cross-browser compatible solution compared to stack-generator.

stacktrace-js

Stacktrace-js offers similar functionalities by providing stack traces but goes further by allowing better cross-browser stack trace collection and source mapping, which can be more useful for debugging applications that need to support multiple browsers.

README

stack-generator

Generate artificial backtrace by walking arguments.callee.caller chain. Works everywhere except strict-mode.

Usage

StackGenerator.backtrace()

=> [StackFrame({functionName: 'foo', args: []}), StackFrame(..), StackFrame(..)]

Installation

npm install stack-generator
bower install stack-generator
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stacktracejs/stack-generator/master/dist/stack-generator.min.js

Browser Support

Contributing

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