Node Summit 2016 – To Err Is Human

Error objects should have a place in your utility belt. They are indispensable when it comes to managing work flows in a highly asynchronous environment. This talk covers patterns for using JavaScript Error (capital E) objects to build resilient applications, and introduces some modules that can be used to build errors with an elegant history of stack traces. Try/catch, callbacks, and other error handling mechanisms will be examined, revealing some potential deficiencies in the JavaScript language for dealing with errors.

Alex Liu, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix