ErrorJS

Extendable javascript errors

About

After extending javascript Error class in every single project and copying allways different bad snippets from stackoverflow, i wanted to have a good error base that i can reuse in different javascript/typescript projects. This library tries to provide good simple base for javascript errors.

Install

npm install --save errorjs

Features

Sane predefined errors

ErrorJS has a list of predefined errors, that you can reuse while devloping a service.

import {
  NotImplementedError,
  InternalError,
  NotFoundError,
  UnauthorizedError,
  ConnectionError,
  ValidationError,
  ConflictError,
  LogicalError
 } from 'errorjs';

throw new NotImplementedError('some_feature_not_implemented');
throw new InternalError('something_internally');
throw new NotFoundError('something_was_not_found');
throw new UnauthorizedError('access_was_unauthroized');
throw new ConnectionError('error_with_connection_to_server');
throw new ValidationError('error_validating_resource');
throw new ConflictError('some_conflict');
throw new LogicalError('some_logic_error');

Enforced error codes

Every error must have error code provided, which should uniquely identify an error

import {ConflictError} from 'errorjs';

throw new ConflictError(); // <-- invalid since no error code is provided
throw new ConflictError('some_error_code'); // <-- good, since error code is provided

Support for error context

Additional context can be passed when creating an error

Simple error context

import {ConflictError} from 'errorjs';

throw new ConflictError('some_error_code', {some: 'context'});

Error class with predefined error context

const ConflictWithContext = ConflictError.withContext({some: 'context'});

throw new ConflictWithContext('some_error_code', {some: 'othercontext'});

Error factory with predefined error context

import {errors} from 'errorjs';

const contextErrors = errors.withContext({userId: '<some_user_id>'});

const error = new contextErrors.ConflictError('user_exists', {errorId: '<some_error_id>'});

error.context // {userId: '<some_user_id>', errorId: '<some_error_id>'}

Support for child errors

Child errors can be passed to an error to encapsulate errors

import {ConflictError} from 'errorjs';

const baseError = new Error('some base error');
const baseError2 = new Error('some other error');

throw new ConflictError('some_error_code', baseError, baseError2);

Variable arguments

Error constructor accepts variable number of arguments. This enable to pass multiple context objects to error.

import {ValidationError} from 'errorjs';

const baseError = new Error('some error has happend');

throw new ValidationError('some_error_code', baseError, {some: 'context'}, {some: 'other_context'});

TypeScript/flowtype support

ErrorJS is tightly integrated with typescript and provides type information.

import {errors} from 'errorjs';

errors.NotImplemented // <--- autocomplete here

new errors.NotFoundError( /* autocomplete here */ );

Extendable error factory and base error

Error factory can be extended with new errors classes and base error can be redefined.

import {ExtendedErrorFactory} from 'errorjs';

class MyVeryBadErrorFactory extends ExtendedErrorFactory {
  BaseError = class BaseError extends this.BaseError {
    isVeryBadError = true;

    get isUserError() {
      return this.context.userID;
    }
  };

  MyError = this.defineErrorClass(
    class MyError extends this.BaseError {
      meta = {httpCode: 500};
    }
  );
}

const factory = new MyErrorFactory();
const error = factory.NotFoundError('some_error', {userID: '123-123'});

error.isVeryBadError // <-- extended functionality here

throw new factory.MyError('some_error_code');

Examples

TypeScript

import {ExtendedErrorFactory} from 'errorjs';

class MyErrorFactory extends ExtendedErrorFactory {
  BaseError = class MyBaseError extends this.BaseError {
    scope = 'global';

    get isUserError() {
      return this.context.userId;
    }
  };

  TransactionError = this.defineErrorClass(
    class TransactionError extends this.ConflictError {
      scope = 'transaction';

      get userMessage() {
        return `{${this.scope}} ${super.userMessage}`;
      }
    }
  );
}

const errorFactory = new MyErrorFactory();

const userErrors = factory.withContext({userId: '<some_user_id>'});

throw new userErrors.TransactionError('transaction_not_found', 'transaction was not found', {
  id: '<transaction_id>'
});

JavaScript

const {ExtendedErrorFactory} = require('errorjs');

class MyErrorFactory extends ExtendedErrorFactory {
  constructor(...args) {
    super(...args);

    this.BaseError = class MyBaseError extends this.BaseError {
      scope = 'global';

      get isUserError() {
        return this.context.userId;
      }
    };

    this.TransactionError = this.defineErrorClass(
      class TransactionError extends this.ConflictError {
        get scope() {
          return 'transaction';
        }

        get userMessage() {
          return `{${this.scope}} ${super.userMessage}`;
        }
      }
    );
  }
}

const errorFactory = new MyErrorFactory();

const userErrors = factory.withContext({userId: '<some_user_id>'});

throw new userErrors.TransactionError('transaction_not_found', 'transaction was not found', {
  id: '<transaction_id>'
});

Development

• npm t: Run test suite
• npm start: Runs npm run build in watch mode
• npm run test:watch: Run test suite in interactive watch mode
• npm run test:prod: Run linting and generate coverage
• npm run build: Generage bundles and typings, create docs
• npm run lint: Lints code
• npm run commit: Commit using conventional commit style (husky will tell you to use it if you haven't :wink:)

Credits

Made with :heart: by @offlinehacker