Class NamedError

constructor

• new NamedError(name: string, message: string, existingError?: unknown): NamedError

• creates a new Error with the given name and message.

  • Additionally receives a givenError which will have concatenated message and stack with the newly created error.
  • If the givenError is not typeof Error an Error will be created of it.

  Usage

  const existingError = new RangeError('some message')
  const myError = new NamedError('MyError', 'this is my custom Error', existingError);
  
  // in a try-catch-phrase
  try {
    // some dangerous stuff
  } catch (error) {
    Loxer.error(new NamedError('DangerousStuffError', 'failed to do some dangerous stuff', error));
  }
  

  Parameters

  • name: string

    The Error.name

  • message: string

    The Error.message which may be concatenated with the givenError.message

  • Optional existingError: unknown

    An optional error (of any type) which will be concatenated

  Returns NamedError