`modern-errors` plugin to prettify errors.
npm install modern-errors-beautiful





modern-errors
plugin to prettify errors.
This adds BaseError.beautiful(error) which
prettifies error messages and stacks.
- 🖍️ Pretty colors, icons and header
- ⛑️ Normalize invalid errors
- 🔕 Log verbosity: stack, nested errors,
properties
- 💥 Exception-safe

Adding the plugin tomodern-errors.
``js
import ModernError from 'modern-errors'
import modernErrorsBeautiful from 'modern-errors-beautiful'
export const BaseError = ModernError.subclass('BaseError', {
plugins: [modernErrorsBeautiful],
})
// ...
`
Prettifying the error.
`js`
try {
// ...
} catch (error) {
const message = BaseError.beautiful(error)
console.error(message)
}
`bash`
npm install modern-errors-beautiful
This package requires Node.js >=18.18.0.
This is an ES module. It must be loaded using
an import or import() statement,
not require(). If TypeScript is used, it must be configured to
output ES modules,
not CommonJS.
_Type_: Plugin
Plugin object to pass to the
plugins option of
ErrorClass.subclass().
error: any\string
_Return value_:
Returns error as a prettified string.
This never throws. Invalid errors are silently
normalized.
_Type_: object
_Type_: boolean\true
_Default_:
Whether to show the error's stack trace.
#### cause
_Type_: boolean\true
_Default_:
Whether to show
aggregate errors.
_Type_: boolean\true
_Default_:
Whether to show the error's additional properties.
_Type_: boolean\true
_Default_: in terminals, false otherwise
Whether to colorize the error's message, stack trace and additional properties.
Quoted strings in the error's message are printed in bold (for "..." and'...') and in italic (for ... ).
_Type_: string\'cross'
_Default_:
Icon prepended to the error's name. The available values are listed
here.
Can be disabled by passing an empty string.
_Type_: string\'red bold'
_Default_:
Color/style of the error's icon and name. The available values are
listed here. Several
styles can be specified by using spaces. Can be disabled by passing an empty
string.
Options can apply to (in priority order):
- Any error: second argument to
ModernError.subclass()
`js`
export const BaseError = ModernError.subclass('BaseError', {
plugins: [modernErrorsBeautiful],
beautiful: options,
})
- Any error of a specific class (and its subclasses): second argument to
ErrorClass.subclass()
`js`
export const InputError = BaseError.subclass('InputError', {
beautiful: options,
})
- A specific error: second argument to
new ErrorClass()
`js`
throw new InputError('...', { beautiful: options })
- A specific BaseError.beautiful(error) call
`js`
BaseError.beautiful(error, options)
- handle-cli-error: 💣 Error
handler for CLI applications 💥
- beautiful-error: Prettify
error messages and stacks
- modern-errors: Handle errors in
a simple, stable, consistent way
- modern-errors-process:
Handle process errors
- modern-errors-bugs: Print
where to report bugs
- modern-errors-serialize:
Serialize/parse errors
- modern-errors-clean: Clean
stack traces
- modern-errors-http: Create
HTTP error responses
- modern-errors-winston:
Log errors with Winston
- modern-errors-switch:
Execute class-specific logic
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