GoogleCloudPlatform/stackdriver-errors-js

Name: stackdriver-errors-js

Owner: Google Cloud Platform

Description: Client-side JavaScript exception reporting library for Stackdriver Error Reporting

Created: 2016-07-26 20:02:40.0

Updated: 2018-05-15 21:32:30.0

Pushed: 2017-12-20 06:25:18.0

Homepage: https://cloud.google.com/error-reporting/

Size: 611

Language: JavaScript

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README

Experimental Client-side JavaScript library for Stackdriver Error Reporting

This is not an official Google product. This module is experimental and may not be ready for use.

Build Status Dependency Status

This experimental library provides Stackdriver Error Reporting support for client-side web JavaScript applications. Stackdriver Error Reporting is a feature of Google Cloud Platform that allows in-depth monitoring and viewing of errors reported by applications running in almost any environment. For server-side Node.js error reporting, use this other library.

Here's an introductory video:

Learn about Error Reporting in Stackdriver

Prerequisites
  1. You need a Google Cloud project.
  2. Enable the Stackdriver Error Reporting API for your project. We highly recommend to restrict the usage of the key to your website URL only using an 'HTTP referrer' restriction.
  3. Create a browser API key: Follow these instructions to get an API key for your project. If this is not an option for your team, you can use a custom url to send your errors to.
Quickstart

Load and initialize the experimental library

Add this line in your HTML code, before </head> and replace <my-api-key> and <my-project-id> with your API key and Google Cloud project ID string:

 Warning: This is an experimental library, do not use it on production environments -->
ipt defer src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/stackdriver-errors-js/v0.4.0/dist/stackdriver-errors-concat.min.js"></script>
ipt type="text/javascript">
ow.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
r errorHandler = new StackdriverErrorReporter();
rorHandler.start({
key: '<my-api-key>',
projectId: '<my-project-id>'
;

ript>

And that's all you need to do! Unhandled exceptions will now automatically be reported to your project.

Test your setup

Open the page that you instrumented, open the Devtools console and enter the following to trigger an unhandled exception:

ction testErrorReporting() {window.onerror(null, null, null, null, new Error('Test: Something broke!'));})();

Open Stackdriver Error Reporting at https://console.cloud.google.com/errors to view the error and opt-in to notifications on new errors.

Setup for JavaScript
Download the module

We recommend using npm: npm install stackdriver-errors-js --save.

Initialization

Here are all the initialization options available:

 Warning: This is an experimental library -->
ipt defer src="node_modules/stackdriver-errors-js/dist/stackdriver-errors-concat.min.js"></script>
ipt type="text/javascript">
ow.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
r errorHandler = new StackdriverErrorReporter();
rorHandler.start({
key: '<my-api-key>',
projectId: '<my-project-id>',
service: '<my-service>',              // (optional)
version: '<my-service-version>',      // (optional)
// reportUncaughtExceptions: false    // (optional) Set to false to stop reporting unhandled exceptions.
// disabled: true                     // (optional) Set to true to not report errors when calling report(), this can be used when developping locally.
// context: {user: 'user1'}           // (optional) You can set the user later using setUser()
;

ript>
Usage

Unhandled exception will now automatically be reported to Stackdriver Error Reporting.

You can also change your application code to report errors: try { ... } catch(e) { errorHandler.report(e); } or simply errorHandler.report('Something broke!');.

You can set a user identifier at any time using errorHandler.setUser('userId').

Source maps

Only publicly available JavaScript source maps are supported.

Your minified file need to be appended with a comment directive to your source map file:

sourceMappingURL=http://example.com/path/to/your/sourcemap.map
Setup for AngularJS
Initialization
  1. Load the dist/stackdriver-errors-concat.min.js JavaScript module.

  2. Implement a new exception handler for your AngularJS application:

lar.module('myAngularApp', [])

actory('$exceptionHandler', ['$log', '$window', function($log, $window) {
var StackdriverErrors = new $window.StackdriverErrorReporter();
StackdriverErrors.start({
  key: '<my-api-key>',
  projectId: '<my-project-id>',
  service: '<my-service>',              // (optional)
  version: '<my-service-version>'       // (optional)
});

return function(exception, cause) {
  StackdriverErrors.report(exception);
  $log.warn('Reported error:', exception, cause);
};
)
Usage

Uncaught exception in angular expressions will now be reported to Stackdriver Error Reporting.

If you wish, you can manually delegate exceptions, e.g. try { ... } catch(e) { $exceptionHandler(e); } or simply $exceptionHandler('Something broke!');.

Setup for ReactJS

Follow the general instructions denoted in Setup for JavaScript to load and initialize the library.

There is nothing specific that needs to be done with React, other than making sure to initialize the library in your root entry point(typically index.js).

Configuring without an API key

If you are in a situation where an API key is not an option but you already have an acceptable way to communicate with the Stackdriver API (e.g., a secure back end service running in App Engine), you can configure the endpoint that errors are sent to with the following:

t errorHandler = new StackdriverErrorReporter();
rHandler.start({
rgetUrl: '<my-custom-url>',
rvice: '<my-service>',              // (optional)
rsion: '<my-service-version>'       // (optional)

where targetUrl is the url you'd like to send errors to and can be relative or absolute. This endpoint will need to support the Report API endpoint.

Best Practices
Only reporting in the production environment with Webpack

If using webpack and the DefinePlugin, it is advisable to wrap the initialization logic to only occur in your production environment. Otherwise, with local development you will receive 403s if you restricted your API key to your production environment(which is HIGHLY recommended). The code for this would look something along these lines:

ebpack.production.js
he rest of your webpack configuration
..
ins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
  'process.env.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify('production')
}),
 Your other plugins

..
he rest of your webpack configuration
avascript
ndex.js
t environment = process.env.NODE_ENV;

environment === 'production') {
nst errorHandler = new StackdriverErrorReporter();
rorHandler.start({
key: '<my-project-id>',
projectId: '<my-project-id>',
service: '<my-service>',              // (optional)
version: '<my-service-version>'       // (optional)
;

Usage as a utility

If you would like to use the error logger throughout your application, there are many options that exist. The simplest is to pull the initialization logic into its own file and reference it as necessary throughout your application as a module. An example would be as follows:

rrorHandlerUtility.js

t environment = process.env.NODE_ENV;

errorHandler;

environment === 'production') {

rorHandler = new StackdriverErrorReporter();
rorHandler.start({
key: '<my-project-id>',
projectId: '<my-project-id>',
service: '<my-service>',              // (optional)
version: '<my-service-version>'       // (optional)
;

se {
rorHandler = console.error;


rt default errorHandler;

Consumption of the errorHandlerUtility would essentially follow the following pattern:

yComponent.jsx
rt errorHandler from './errorHandlerUtility';

ome example code that throws an error
ch(error) {
rorHandler.report(error);

FAQ

Q: Should I use this code in my production application? A: This is an experimental library provided without any guarantee or official support. We do not recommend using it on production without performing a review of its code.

Q: Are private source maps supported? A: No, see #4

Developing the library

Install developer dependencies with npm install --dev

Start a web server at the root of this repo and open demo/demo.html to test reporting errors from the local library with your API key and project ID.

Creating a new release

This work is supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Grant Number U24TR002306. This work is solely the responsibility of the creators and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.