throwing template strings shows as an error

[codebam]

What version of standard?
12.0.1
What operating system, Node.js, and npm version?
Arch Linux, v11.1.0, 6.4.1
What did you expect to happen?
I expected to not see an error
What actually happened?
I saw an error

Example:

throw `Insufficient memory loading job ${job[0]}.`

This displays the message:

[standard] Expected an object to be thrown. [E]

However this is completely valid code in Node.js, and it runs just fine.

[codebam]

is this expected behavior? https://eslint.org/docs/1.10.3/rules/no-throw-literal

[LinusU]

This is expected behavior. It's best practice to only throw Error derivatives...

There are a number of drawbacks with throwing strings, most notably you don't get any stack traces. It's also unexpected e.g. when catching to just get a string, and not be able to look at e.g. .stack, .name, etc.