| # StackTracey |
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| Parses call stacks. Reads sources. Clean & filtered output. Sourcemaps. Node & browsers. |
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| ## Why |
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| - [x] Simple |
| - [x] Works in Node and browsers, \*nix and Windows |
| - [x] Allows hiding library calls / ad-hoc exclusion (via `// @hide` marker) |
| - [x] Provides source text for call locations |
| - [x] Fetches sources (via [get-source](https://github.com/xpl/get-source)) |
| - [x] Supports both asynchronous and synchronous interfaces (works even in browsers) |
| - [x] Full sourcemap support |
| - [x] Extracts useful information from `SyntaxError` instances |
| - [x] [Pretty printing](https://github.com/xpl/stacktracey/#pretty-printing) |
| <img width="898" alt="screen shot 2017-09-27 at 16 53 46" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1707/30917345-79899004-a3a4-11e7-8d48-e217e2d5e2cd.png"> |
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| ## What For |
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| - [Error overlay UIs](https://github.com/xpl/panic-overlay/#how-it-looks) for easier front-end development |
| - [Better error reporting](https://github.com/xpl/ololog#pretty-printing-error-instances) for Node projects |
| - [Advanced logging](https://github.com/xpl/ololog#displaying-call-location) (displaying call locations) |
| - Assertion printing |
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| ## How To |
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| ```bash |
| npm install stacktracey |
| ``` |
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| ```javascript |
| import StackTracey from 'stacktracey' |
| ``` |
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| Captures the current call stack: |
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| ```javascript |
| stack = new StackTracey () // captures the current call stack |
| ``` |
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| Parses stacks from an `Error` object: |
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| ```javascript |
| stack = new StackTracey (error) |
| stack = new StackTracey (error.stack) // ...or from raw string |
| ``` |
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| Stores parsed data in `.items`: |
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| ```javascript |
| stack.items.length // num entries |
| stack.items[0] // top |
| ``` |
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| ...where each item exposes: |
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| ```javascript |
| { |
| beforeParse: <original text>, |
| callee: <function name>, |
| calleeShort: <shortened function name>, |
| file: <full path to file>, // e.g. /Users/john/my_project/node_modules/foobar/main.js |
| fileRelative: <relative path to file>, // e.g. node_modules/foobar/main.js |
| fileShort: <short path to file>, // e.g. foobar/main.js |
| fileName: <file name>, // e.g. main.js |
| line: <line number>, // starts from 1 |
| column: <column number>, // starts from 1 |
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| index: /* true if occured in HTML file at index page */, |
| native: /* true if occured in native browser code */, |
| thirdParty: /* true if occured in library code */, |
| hide: /* true if marked as hidden by "// @hide" tag */, |
| syntaxError: /* true if generated from a SyntaxError instance */ |
| } |
| ``` |
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| Accessing sources (**synchronously**, use with caution in browsers): |
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| ```javascript |
| stack = stack.withSources () // returns a copy of stack with all items supplied with sources |
| top = stack.items[0] // top item |
| ``` |
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| Accessing sources (**asynchronously**, preferred method in browsers): |
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| ```javascript |
| stack = await stack.withSourcesAsync () // returns a copy of stack with all items supplied with sources |
| top = stack.items[0] // top item |
| ``` |
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| ...or: |
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| ```javascript |
| top = stack.withSourceAt (0) // supplies source for an individiual item (by index) |
| ``` |
| ```javascript |
| top = await stack.withSourceAsyncAt (0) // supplies source for an individiual item (by index) |
| ``` |
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| ...or: |
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| ```javascript |
| top = stack.withSource (stack.items[0]) // supplies source for an individiual item |
| ``` |
| ```javascript |
| top = await stack.withSourceAsync (stack.items[0]) // supplies source for an individiual item |
| ``` |
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| The returned items contain the following additional fields (already mapped through sourcemaps): |
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| ```javascript |
| { |
| ... // all the previously described fields |
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| line: <original line number>, |
| column: <original column number>, |
| sourceFile: <original source file object>, |
| sourceLine: <original source line text> |
| } |
| ``` |
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| To learn about the `sourceFile` object, read the [get-source](https://github.com/xpl/get-source#get-source) docs. |
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| ## Cleaning Output |
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| Synchronously (use with caution in browsers): |
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| ```javascript |
| stack = stack.clean () |
| ``` |
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| ...or (asynchronously): |
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| ```javascript |
| stack = await stack.cleanAsync () |
| ``` |
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| It does the following: |
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| 1. Reads sources (if available) |
| 2. Excludes locations marked with the `isThirdParty` flag (library calls) |
| 3. Excludes locations marked with a `// @hide` comment (user defined exclusion) |
| 4. Merges repeated lines (via the `.mergeRepeatedLines`) |
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| You can customize its behavior by overriding the `isClean (entry, index)` predicate. |
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| ## Custom `isThirdParty` Predicate |
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| You can override the `isThirdParty` behavior by subclassing `StackTracey`: |
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| ```javascript |
| class MyStackTracey extends StackTracey { |
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| isThirdParty (path, externalDomain) { // you can use externalDomain to include traces from libs from other domains |
| return (super.isThirdParty (path) // include default behavior |
| || path.includes ('my-lib')) // paths including 'my-lib' will be marked as thirdParty |
| && !path.includes ('jquery') // jquery paths won't be marked as thirdParty |
| } |
| } |
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| ... |
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| const stack = new MyStackTracey (error).withSources () |
| ``` |
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| ## Pretty Printing |
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| ```javascript |
| const prettyPrintedString = new StackTracey (error).withSources ().asTable () |
| ``` |
| ```javascript |
| const prettyPrintedString = (await new StackTracey (error).withSourcesAsync ()).asTable () // asynchronous version |
| ``` |
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| ...or (for pretty printing cleaned output): |
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| ```javascript |
| const prettyPrintedString = new StackTracey (error).clean ().asTable () |
| ``` |
| ```javascript |
| const prettyPrintedString = (await new StackTracey (error).cleanAsync ()).asTable () // asynchronous version |
| ``` |
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| It produces a nice compact table layout (thanks to [`as-table`](https://github.com/xpl/as-table)), supplied with source lines (if available): |
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| ``` |
| at shouldBeVisibleInStackTrace test.js:25 const shouldBeVisibleInStackTrace = () => new StackTracey () |
| at it test.js:100 const stack = shouldBeVisibleInStackTrace () |
| at callFn mocha/lib/runnable.js:326 var result = fn.call(ctx); |
| at run mocha/lib/runnable.js:319 callFn(this.fn); |
| at runTest mocha/lib/runner.js:422 test.run(fn); |
| at mocha/lib/runner.js:528 self.runTest(function(err) { |
| at next mocha/lib/runner.js:342 return fn(); |
| at mocha/lib/runner.js:352 next(suites.pop()); |
| at next mocha/lib/runner.js:284 return fn(); |
| at <anonymous> mocha/lib/runner.js:320 next(0); |
| ``` |
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| If you find your pretty printed tables undesirably trimmed (or maybe too long to fit in the line), you can provide custom column widths when calling `asTable` (...or, alternatively, by overriding `maxColumnWidths ()` method): |
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| ```javascript |
| stack.asTable ({ |
| callee: 30, |
| file: 60, |
| sourceLine: 80 |
| }) |
| ``` |
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| ## Using As A Custom Exception Printer In Node |
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| You can even replace the default NodeJS exception printer with this! This is how you can do it: |
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| ```javascript |
| process.on ('uncaughtException', e => { /* print the stack here */ }) |
| process.on ('unhandledRejection', e => { /* print the stack here */ }) |
| ``` |
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| But the most simple way to achieve that is to use the [`ololog`](https://github.com/xpl/ololog/blob/master/README.md) library (that is built upon StackTracey and several other handy libraries coded by me). Check it out, [it's pretty awesome and will blow your brains out](https://github.com/xpl/ololog/blob/master/README.md) :) |
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| ```javascript |
| const log = require ('ololog').handleNodeErrors () |
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| // you can also print Errors by simply passing them to the log() function |
| ``` |
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| <img width="1066" alt="screen shot 2018-05-11 at 19 51 03" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1707/39936393-ffd529c2-5554-11e8-80f8-eff1229017c4.png"> |
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| ## Parsing `SyntaxError` instances |
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| For example, when trying to `require` a file named `test_files/syntax_error.js`: |
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| ```javascript |
| // next line contains a syntax error (not a valid JavaScript) |
| foo->bar () |
| ``` |
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| ...the pretty printed call stack for the error thrown would be something like: |
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| ``` |
| at (syntax error) test_files/syntax_error.js:2 foo->bar () |
| at it test.js:184 try { require ('./test_files/syntax_error.js') } |
| at runCallback timers.js:781 |
| at tryOnImmediate timers.js:743 |
| at processImmediate [as _immediat timers.js:714 |
| ``` |
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| ...where the first line is generated from parsing the raw output from the `util.inspect` call in Node. Unfortunately, this won't work in older versions of Node (v4 and below) as these versions can't provide any meaningful information for a `SyntaxError` instance. |
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| ## Array Methods |
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| All StackTracey instances expose `map`, `filter`, `concat` and `slice` methods. These methods will return mapped, filtered, joined, reversed and sliced `StackTracey` instances, respectively: |
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| ```javascript |
| s = new StackTracey ().slice (1).filter (x => !x.thirdParty) // current stack shifted by 1 and cleaned from library calls |
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| s instanceof StackTracey // true |
| ``` |
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| ## Extra Stuff |
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| You can compare two locations via this predicate (tests `file`, `line` and `column` for equality): |
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| ```javascript |
| StackTracey.locationsEqual (a, b) |
| ``` |
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| To force-reload the sources, you can invalidate the global source cache: |
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| ```javascript |
| StackTracey.resetCache () |
| ``` |
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| ## Projects That Use StackTracey |
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| - [Ololog](https://github.com/xpl/ololog) — a better `console.log` for the log-driven debugging junkies! |
| - [CCXT](https://github.com/ccxt-dev/ccxt) — a cryptocurrency trading library that supports 130+ exchanges |
| - [pnpm](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm) — a fast, disk space efficient package manager (faster than npm and Yarn!) |
| - [panic-overlay](https://github.com/xpl/panic-overlay/) — a lightweight standalone alternative to `react-error-overlay` |
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