Replace usage of VError with Error.cause

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) on how to contribute to Cucumber
 ### Fixed
 - Prevent mutations on world parameters leaking between test cases ([#2362](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/pull/2362))
 
+### Changed
+- Replace usage of `VError` with `Error.cause` ([#2363](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/pull/2363))
+
 ## [10.0.1] - 2023-10-20
 ### Fixed
 - Honour order of paths in configuration ([#2345](https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-js/pull/2345))

features/support/world.ts

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ import { PassThrough, pipeline, Writable } from 'node:stream'
 import fs from 'node:fs'
 import path from 'node:path'
 import util from 'node:util'
+import { Console } from 'node:console'
 import { expect } from 'chai'
 import toString from 'stream-to-string'
 import stripAnsi from 'strip-ansi'
-import VError from 'verror'
 import * as messages from '@cucumber/messages'
 import * as messageStreams from '@cucumber/message-streams'
 import FakeReportServer from '../../test/fake_report_server'
@@ -106,13 +106,15 @@ export class World {
       } catch (err) {
         error = err
       }
+      if (error) {
+        new Console(stderr).error(error)
+      }
       stdout.end()
       stderr.end()
-      const stderrSuffix = error != null ? VError.fullStack(error) : ''
       result = {
         error,
         stdout: await toString(stdout),
-        stderr: (await toString(stderr)) + stderrSuffix,
+        stderr: await toString(stderr),
       }
     }
     const envelopes: messages.Envelope[] = []

package.json

@@ -245,7 +245,6 @@
     "tmp": "^0.2.1",
     "type-fest": "^4.8.3",
     "util-arity": "^1.1.0",
-    "verror": "^1.10.0",
     "xmlbuilder": "^15.1.1",
     "yaml": "^2.2.2",
     "yup": "1.2.0"
@@ -277,7 +276,6 @@
     "@types/sinonjs__fake-timers": "8.1.2",
     "@types/stream-buffers": "3.0.4",
     "@types/tmp": "0.2.3",
-    "@types/verror": "1.10.6",
     "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "6.7.4",
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": "6.7.4",
     "chai": "4.3.7",

src/cli/run.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 /* eslint-disable no-console */
 /* This is one rare place where we're fine to use process/console directly,
  * but other code abstracts those to remain composable and testable. */
-import VError from 'verror'
 import { validateNodeEngineVersion } from './validate_node_engine_version'
 import Cli, { ICliRunResult } from './'
 
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ export default async function run(): Promise<void> {
   try {
     result = await cli.run()
   } catch (error) {
-    logErrorMessageAndExit(VError.fullStack(error))
+    logErrorMessageAndExit(error)
   }
 
   const exitCode = result.success ? 0 : 1

src/runtime/parallel/run_worker.ts

@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
-import VError from 'verror'
 import { doesHaveValue } from '../../value_checker'
 import Worker from './worker'
 
 function run(): void {
   const exit = (exitCode: number, error?: Error, message?: string): void => {
     if (doesHaveValue(error)) {
-      console.error(VError.fullStack(new VError(error, message))) // eslint-disable-line no-console
+      console.error(new Error(message, { cause: error })) // eslint-disable-line no-console
     }
     process.exit(exitCode)
   }

src/runtime/run_test_run_hooks.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import VError from 'verror'
 import UserCodeRunner from '../user_code_runner'
 import { formatLocation } from '../formatter/helpers'
 import { doesHaveValue, valueOrDefault } from '../value_checker'
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ export const makeRunTestRunHooks = (
           })
           if (doesHaveValue(error)) {
             const location = formatLocation(hookDefinition)
-            throw new VError(error, errorMessage(name, location))
+            throw new Error(errorMessage(name, location), { cause: error })
           }
         }
       }

src/try_require.ts

@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ export default function tryRequire(path: string) {
     if (error.code === 'ERR_REQUIRE_ESM') {
       throw Error(
         `Cucumber expected a CommonJS module at '${path}' but found an ES module.
-      Either change the file to CommonJS syntax or use the --import directive instead of --require.
-
-      Original error message: ${error.message}`
+      Either change the file to CommonJS syntax or use the --import directive instead of --require.`,
+        { cause: error }
       )
     } else {
       throw error