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Please, please, please do this. One of my biggest JS pet peeves is when people catch errors then throw a new error without including the cause. You’re shooting yourself in the foot.

Pooya Parsa@pi0.io

JS pro tip: Add { cause } to errors. Makes debugging and inspection way easier 🔍 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

1/10/25, 10:46 pm4 reposts49 likes

Phillip Broth

@thebrochures.bsky.social

2 Oct 2025

There’s even an eslint rule for this: eslint.org/docs/latest/...

eslint.orgpreserve-caught-error - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript LinterA pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Prabhat Yadav

@prabhat-yadav.bsky.social

2 Oct 2025

I think it's not limited to JS, I am working on java code base and it's literally same every time an error is catched.

yeah...guilty