@stack-tools/v8-tools

v8-tools provides utilites for printing and parsing v8 errors and their stacks. If you're not sure if your code will always run in a v8 environment, you will need to know before you use this tool to parse errors. If you are not sure, you should instead use the stack-tools package. Errors that can be parsed by this package will look more or less like this:

Error: A message about the error
    at someFunction (foo.js:10:2)
    at index.js:1:1

What uses v8?

v8 is used in many common browsers including including Chrome, Chromium, IE Edge, and Opera, as well as in node. If you are using node however, you should actually use the node-tools package.

The most notable browsers not using v8 are Firefox (using Spidermonkey) and Safari (using JavaScriptCore).

Usage

import {
  parseErrors,
  cleanErrors,
  printErrors,
} from '@stack-tools/v8-tools';

try {
  doStuff();
} catch (e) {
  const errors = parseErrors(e);

  cleanErrors(errors);

  console.error(printErrors(errors));
}

API

The api for node-tools extends from the stack-tools API. It is capable of more robust parsing though, and can even parse error strings, i.e. parseError(err.stack), which the base stack-tools cannot. Furthermore it provides the most detailed output it can, specifically offering a FrameNode describing content of each frame. When parsing ErrorNode.frames will be an Array<FrameNode>. For details of the AST structure please read ast.d.ts.

v8-tools overrides the implementations of some methods from the stack-tools API to provide support for custom chaining prefixes. Custom prefixes are usually the result of user tampering with error.stack, such as is done by nested-error-stacks.

• printErrors(error) returns `${printError(error)}\n${error.prefix}: ${printErrors(error.cause)}`

v8-tools also defines the following additional methods:

• parseFrame(frame) returns a FrameNode
• isInternalFrame(frame) returns true if frame represents a location internal to the v8 runtime.
• cleanError(error, predicate = isInternalFrame) mutates error.stack, filtering out internal frames. Returns error.
• cleanErrors(errors, predicate = isInternalFrame) for each error mutates error.stack, filtering out internal frames. Returns errors.