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Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think

What's this blog post about?

Cryptic error messages can be frustrating and time-consuming for developers. As framework and library designers, it is crucial to follow design principles that create helpful and actionable error messages. These principles include writing errors for users rather than maintainers, suggesting why an error occurred or how to fix it, making errors searchable, logging frequent errors, and avoiding verbosity in error messages. By following these guidelines, developers can improve the user experience and save time during debugging processes.

Company
Temporal

Date published
Nov. 19, 2020

Author(s)
swyx

Word count
821

Language
English

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