Setup Airbrake for your React application

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Installation

Add the library

npm install @airbrake/browser

Configuration

To report errors from a React app, you'll need to set up and use an ErrorBoundary component and initialize a Notifier with your projectId and projectKey.

(You can find your project ID and API key in your project's settings)

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Notifier } from '@airbrake/browser';

class ErrorBoundary extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { hasError: false };
    this.airbrake = new Notifier({
      projectId: <Your project ID>,
      projectKey: '<Your project API Key>'
    });
  }

  componentDidCatch(error, info) {
    // Display fallback UI
    this.setState({ hasError: true });
    // Send error to Airbrake
    this.airbrake.notify({
      error: error,
      params: {info: info}
    });
  }

  render() {
    if (this.state.hasError) {
      // You can render any custom fallback UI
      return <h1>Something went wrong.</h1>;
    }
    return this.props.children;
  }
}

export default ErrorBoundary;

Then you can use it as a regular component:

<ErrorBoundary>
  <MyWidget />
</ErrorBoundary>

To test that Airbrake has been installed correctly in your project, start up
your JS project locally. Then visit it in your browser (eg:
http://localhost:1080), open the JS console, and paste in the following to
trigger a test error:

window.onerror("TestError: This is a test", "path/to/file.js", 123);

This should send a test error to your Airbrake project.

Full documentation

Visit our official GitHub repo for more info on alternative configurations and advanced options.