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Custom Error Boundaries for Recovery
Error Boundaries catch JavaScript errors anywhere in their child component tree, preventing the entire app from unmounting and allowing for a graceful fallback UI.
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class ErrorBoundary extends React.Component {state = { hasError: false };static getDerivedStateFromError(error: Error) {return { hasError: true };}componentCatch(error: Error, info: React.ErrorInfo) {logErrorToService(error, info);}render() {if (this.state.hasError) return <ErrorFallback />;return this.props.children;}}
react
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static getDerivedStateFromError(error: Error)
Updates state to trigger the fallback UI rendering on the next render pass.
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componentCatch(error: Error, info: React.ErrorInfo)
Lifecycle method used for logging error details to external monitoring services.