Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Infinite stack trace limit in development

A lot of the time in development we want as much context as we can get, but we don't want to have to type out a long flag every time we run a process.

But in production, we want to save precious resources.

Let's copy the app folder to infinite-stack-in-dev-app:

$ cp -fr app infinite-stack-in-dev-app

Now at very the top of index.js, we simply write the following:

if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') { 
  Error.stackTraceLimit = Infinity 
} 

Now if we run our server:

$ node index.js

Then, make a request with curl (or, optionally, some other method, such as a browser):

$ curl http://localhost:3000/

Our stack trace will be limitless.