Error handling improvements

Proposing some changes that I mentioned [here](#236 (comment)). To recap, I think the error logging in Stimulus is great, but several people (me included) have been caught by the fact that errors aren't reported elsewhere out of the box. The aim of this PR is to automatically integrate with third party error tracking services where possible, and to improve the documentation where not.

Specific changes:

- If `window.onerror` is defined, Stimulus will now call it after logging an error. Many error tracking tools define this method, eg. [Sentry](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/blob/0ee07995d415d3870608c477cbdcf8445a51e1bb/packages/browser/src/loader.js#L192), [Airbrake](https://github.com/airbrake/airbrake-js/blob/9d4787b1c559aa39107d7288f46c4108c9a9d954/packages/browser/src/notifier.ts#L70)
- Added documentation on how error handling works, including what happens out of the box and how to override it (with code sample from #53)
- Added tests for the error handler.

Author: ghiculescu

docs/handbook/07_installing_stimulus.md

@@ -120,9 +120,29 @@ Stimulus supports all evergreen, self-updating desktop and mobile browsers out o
 If your application needs to support older browsers like Internet Explorer 11, include the [`@stimulus/polyfills`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@stimulus/polyfills) package before loading Stimulus.
 
 ```js
+// src/application.js
 import "@stimulus/polyfills"
 import { Application } from "stimulus"
 
 const application = Application.start()
 // …
 ```
+
+## Error handling
+
+All calls from Stimulus to your application's code are wrapped in a `try ... catch` block.
+
+If your code throws an error, it will be caught by Stimulus and logged to the browser console, including extra detail such as the controller name and event or lifecycle function being called. If you use an error tracking system that defines `window.onerror`, Stimulus will also pass the error on to it.
+
+You can override how Stimulus handles errors by defining `Application#handleError`:
+
+```js
+// src/application.js
+import { Application } from "stimulus"
+const application = Application.start()
+
+application.handleError = (error, message, detail) => {
+  console.warn(message, detail)
+  Raven.captureException(error)
+}
+```

packages/@stimulus/core/src/application.ts

@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ export class Application implements ErrorHandler {
 
   handleError(error: Error, message: string, detail: object) {
     this.logger.error(`%s\n\n%o\n\n%o`, message, error, detail)
+
+    window.onerror && window.onerror(message, "", 0, 0, error)
   }
 }
 

packages/@stimulus/core/src/tests/modules/class_tests.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { ControllerTestCase } from "../cases/controller_test_case"
 import { ClassController } from "../controllers/class_controller"
 
-export default class ValueTests extends ControllerTestCase(ClassController) {
+export default class ClassTests extends ControllerTestCase(ClassController) {
   fixtureHTML = `
     <div data-controller="${this.identifier}"
       data-${this.identifier}-active-class="test--active"

packages/@stimulus/core/src/tests/modules/error_handler_tests.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import { Controller } from "../.."
+import { Application } from "../../application"
+import { ControllerTestCase } from "../cases/controller_test_case"
+
+class MockLogger {
+  errors: any[] = []
+  logs: any[] = []
+  warns: any[] = []
+
+  log(event: any) {
+    this.logs.push(event)
+  }
+
+  error(event: any) {
+    this.errors.push(event)
+  }
+
+  warn(event: any) {
+    this.warns.push(event)
+  }
+}
+
+class ErrorWhileConnectingController extends Controller {
+  connect() {
+    throw new Error('bad!');
+  }
+}
+
+class TestApplicationWithDefaultErrorBehavior extends Application {
+}
+
+export default class ErrorHandlerTests extends ControllerTestCase(ErrorWhileConnectingController) {
+  controllerConstructor = ErrorWhileConnectingController
+
+  async setupApplication() {
+    const logger = new MockLogger()
+
+    this.application = new TestApplicationWithDefaultErrorBehavior(this.fixtureElement, this.schema)
+    this.application.logger = logger
+
+    window.onerror = function(message, source, lineno, colno, error) {
+      logger.log(`error from window.onerror. message = ${message}, source = ${source}, lineno = ${lineno}, colno = ${colno}`)
+    }
+
+    await super.setupApplication()
+  }
+
+  async "test errors in connect are thrown and handled by built in logger"() {
+    const mockLogger: any = this.application.logger
+
+    // when `ErrorWhileConnectingController#connect` throws, the controller's application's logger's `error` function
+    // is called; in this case that's `MockLogger#error`.
+    this.assert.equal(1, mockLogger.errors.length)
+  }
+
+  async "test errors in connect are thrown and handled by window.onerror"() {
+    const mockLogger: any = this.application.logger
+
+    this.assert.equal(1, mockLogger.logs.length)
+    this.assert.equal('error from window.onerror. message = Error connecting controller, source = , lineno = 0, colno = 0', mockLogger.logs[0])
+  }
+}