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Basic Error Handling
The try...catch block prevents your Node.js application from crashing when an error occurs. The 'try' block contains risky code, and 'catch' handles the error if one happens.
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try {const data = JSON.parse('invalid json');} catch (error) {console.error('An error occurred:', error.message);}
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try {
Starts a block of code to monitor for errors.
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} catch (error) {
Executes this block if an error was thrown in the try block.