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JavaScript Node.js Basics Handling Errors in Node Handle Status Code Errors

Murilo de Melo
Murilo de Melo
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Why so many error-checkings? Isn't there one try-catch block able to capture them all?

If the whole code is inside a try-catch block, shouldn't it care for catching all errors that occur inside it?

1 Answer

Rohald van Merode
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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Murilo de Melo 👋

You could indeed wrap everything in a single try/catch block, but when you use a try/catch block for each asynchronous action you'll have more control over your error handling, You'll know where the error originated from and therefor you'll be able to give more specific error messaging to the user 🙂 In the example shown in the video the initial try/catch catches errors happening when something went wrong while fetching the data, and the nested catch will only run specifically when something went wrong when parsing that data.

In this specific video however both are doing the exact same thing: printError(error). So for this specific example you could in theory get away with a single try/catch 🙂

Hope this clears things up!

Murilo de Melo
Murilo de Melo
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Hi Rohald

It did cleared things up.

Thanks