DeadOrbit

Members of Dead Orbit intend to escape the dying Earth before The Darkness returns, as they've given up on The Traveler and put little faith in The City's ability to hold out against a major attack.

Dead Orbit is a flexible JavaScript utility to log errors in NodeJS and the browser.

Usage

An instance of DeadOrbit is configured with a driver that accepts a standardized error information object and communicates with a logging service, and optionally a processor that can modify or reject the error.

var DeadOrbit = require('deadorbit');
var SentryDriver = require('deadorbit/drivers/sentry');
var BrowserProcessor = require('deadorbit/processors/browserEnv');
 
var sentryDriver = new SentryDriver({
  server: 'https://sentry.example.com/',
  project: '25',
  key: 'abcde12345'
});
var browserProcessor = new BrowserProcessor();
var deadOrbit = new DeadOrbit(sentryDriver, browserProcessor);

See the drivers directory for more information about the available drivers and the parameters they accept. Likewise, see the processors directory for information about processors.

Errors can be reported by passing an Error instance to the "report" method.

deadOrbit.report(new Error('Test error message'));

The report method also accepts an optional "options" parameter, which can contain the following keys:

• tags
• user

Standardized Error Info

A standardized error info object is created by core Dead Orbit code, and is passed to the "process" and "report" methods of processors and drivers.

The standardized error information object can contain the following keys:

• message The Error's message
• type The Error's type
• stacks An array of frame objects
• user A user object
• tags An array of custom tags
• environment An object containing information about the current environment.

A frame object can contain the following keys:

• fileName The filename for this frame.
• functionName The function name for this frame.
• lineNumber The line number for this frame.
• columnNumber The columne number for this frame.
• args An array of arguments give to the function of this frame.

Known Issues

• Drivers have a hard dependency on network communication dependencies. These should be injectable as well. (Milestone: 2.0.0)
• Sentry driver has poor backwards compatiblity due to the network communication dependency. (Milestone: 2.0.0)
• Airbrake driver is not yet written. (Milestone: 1.1.0)
• Project isn't called "dinklebot".