Zidan Putra Rahman zidan-p

Error Handling in Practice

My experience is mostly with Java backend services in the cloud, so the advice in this post will almost certainly be biased towards this kind of error handling. But hopefully, some of it will be generally applicable and help you maintain and debug your programs in the long run.

I don't claim that these are universal best practices, but I have found these to be useful as general guidelines. As always, use your best judgment and do things that make sense in your context.

Log the whole thing

In Java, a full exception is:

Javascript request yak shave

I wanted to easily make HTTP requests (both GET & POST) with a simple interface that returns promises.

The popular request & request-promises package are good, but I wanted to figure out how to do it w/out using external dependencies.

The key features are:

the ability to set a timeout
non-200 responses are considered errors that reject the promise.
any errors at the TCP socker/DNS level reject the promise.