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Name your functions for better stack traces

Post author By Simon Plenderleith
Post date November 23, 2020

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If you’re exporting single functions from CommonJS modules in Node.js, improve your stack traces and make debugging easier by naming those functions:

module.exports = function anotherFunction() {
    // ...
};

Screenshot of CommonJS module in Node.js with anonymous functions which result in a less clear error stack trace

Screenshot of CommonJS module in Node.js with a named function which results in a clearer error stack trace