Capturing React Errors Globally
error-handling, exception, javascript, react-redux, reactjs
Solution
Doc refs: https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/07/26/error-handling-in-react-16.html
Real case of implementation example:
// app.js
const MOUNT_NODE = document.getElementById('app');
const render = (messages) => {
ReactDOM.render(
<Provider store={store}>
<LanguageProvider messages={messages}>
<ConnectedRouter history={history}>
<ErrorBoundary>
<App />
</ErrorBoundary>
</ConnectedRouter>
</LanguageProvider>
</Provider>,
MOUNT_NODE
);
};
// ErrorBoundary component
export default class ErrorBoundary {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { hasError: false };
}
componentDidCatch(error, info) {
// Display fallback UI
this.setState({ hasError: true });
}
render() {
if (this.state.hasError) {
return (
<div>
// error message
</div>
);
}
return this.props.children;
}
}
Problem
I'm new to React. I want to capture all react uncaught and unexpected errors/warnings and i would like to log the errors to an external api. I know its possible by Try Catch method but I'm planning to have it globally so that other developer need not to write the code each and every time. I tried `window.onerror/addEventListener('error', function(e){}` which only captures the Javascript errors but not react errors. This is similar to following post How do I handle exceptions?. But the solution given didn't meet my needs. Can someone help me on this?