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One thing you should add to section 10 is encouraging people to pass `cause` option while throwing new Error instances. For example

new Error("something bad happened", {cause:innerException})

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It's wild that that's not what the section is about. Extending error is not new at-all.

Most people (including the author apparently) don't know they can chain errors with cause option in-built way in node and in browser. It is not just arbitrary extending and it is relatively a new thing. https://nodejs.org/api/errors.html#errorcause

I've found that a lot of logging frameworks and patterns will not include cause which can absolutely fuck debugging

Cool didn't know about this

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