Properly update an error's class.

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Features

• Sets an error's prototype, name and constructor
• Update the error's stack with its new name
• Handles invalid errors

Example

import setErrorClass from 'set-error-class'

const typeError = new TypeError('test')
console.log(typeError instanceof TypeError) // true
console.log(typeError.name) // 'TypeError'
console.log(typeError.constructor) // TypeError
console.log(typeError.stack) // TypeError: test ...

const rangeError = setErrorClass(typeError, RangeError)
console.log(rangeError === typeError) // true
console.log(rangeError instanceof RangeError) // true
console.log(rangeError.name) // 'RangeError'
console.log(rangeError.constructor) // RangeError
console.log(rangeError.stack) // RangeError: test ...

Install

npm install set-error-class

This package works in both Node.js >=18.18.0 and browsers.

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.

API

setErrorClass(error, ErrorClass)

error Error | unknown
ErrorClass typeof Error
Return value: Error

Sets the error's prototype, name and constructor.

Usage

Invalid errors

error is returned. If error is not an Error instance, it is converted to one.

error.stack

In V8 (Chrome, Node.js, Deno, etc.), error.stack includes error.name. It is updated accordingly.

Error constructors

ErrorClass is assigned to error, but its constructor is not called. In some instances, this might lead to invalid errors. If ErrorClass's constructor is doing anything significant, that logic should be performed on error as well.

Related projects

• modern-errors: Handle errors in a simple, stable, consistent way
• error-custom-class: Create one error class
• error-class-utils: Utilities to properly create error classes
• error-serializer: Convert errors to/from plain objects
• normalize-exception: Normalize exceptions/errors
• is-error-instance: Check if a value is an Error instance
• set-error-message: Properly update an error's message
• wrap-error-message: Properly wrap an error's message
• set-error-props: Properly update an error's properties
• set-error-stack: Properly update an error's stack
• merge-error-cause: Merge an error with its cause
• error-cause-polyfill: Polyfill error.cause
• handle-cli-error: 💣 Error handler for CLI applications 💥
• log-process-errors: Show some ❤ to Node.js process errors
• error-http-response: Create HTTP error responses
• winston-error-format: Log errors with Winston

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