Storyden

import { RequestError } from "@/api/common"; const ErrUnexpected = "An unexpected error occurred"; /** * Derives an end-user message from an error/exception value. * @param e exception or any error type */ export function deriveError(e: unknown): string { if (e === null || e === undefined) { return ""; } if (typeof e === "string") { return e; } if (e instanceof Error) { if (e instanceof RequestError) { return e.message; } if (e instanceof TypeError) { console.error(e); return ErrUnexpected; } if (e.message.includes("React")) { // React prints these by default. return "Something went wrong while rendering data."; } return e.message ?? ErrUnexpected; } console.error("unable to derive error text:", e); return "An unknown error occurred"; }