NodeJS: Auto-catch errors in Promise and call reject

Question

I recently found myself in a situation very difficult to debug.
Imagine the following very simple situation:

function somePromise() {

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {

        SomeModule.someMethod();

        AnotherModule.somePromise().then(resolve).catch(reject);

    });

}

Resolve was never called, but I didn't get an error in the console - this was difficult to debug!

Turns out that I forgot to require

SomeModule

. After requiring it, the code worked as expected.

Is there a way to automatically try/catch every Promise in my code with an error handler? I don't want to surround the body of my Promises with a try/catch block just to be able to find such errors more easily in the future.

Thanks in advance for opinions!

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Answer 1

Is there a way to automatically try/catch every Promise in my code with an error handler?

This is implicitly done by the Promise constructor already. If the callback throws an exception synchronously, the promise will reject.

However, you really should avoid the Promise constructor antipattern! Use

function somePromise() {
    SomeModule.someMethod();
    return AnotherModule.somePromise();
}

NodeJS: Auto-catch errors in Promise and call reject

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