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Adding React-Error-Overlay

See original GitHub issue

Please consider integrating react-error-overlay which is available as an npm package. The source code in here.

Instead of trying to understand the errors hidden away in the browser console, we’d see something like this:

error_overlay

This does a much better job of explaining JS errors than browsers do which is helpful for everyone but especially beginners.

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:10
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

antonmoiseevcommented, Oct 30, 2018

@timneutkens This probably can be closed now since Next.js 7 introduced react-error-overlay.

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arunodacommented, Jul 24, 2017

Yes. This seems like something pretty solid.

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