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| author | Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> | 2018-11-05 01:29:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Myles Borins <mylesborins@google.com> | 2018-12-03 21:32:59 +0300 |
| commit | 5fae45075cf43f5f31fdc2ef0a9123731e6b6551 (patch) | |
| tree | 3afb9e321a7a6ea30159be1455c677ac62387415 /doc | |
| parent | 2659a43905f56d271bbb7a5592cf76a5b728d813 (diff) | |
doc: add text about error.code stability
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/23975
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24090
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/errors.md | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/errors.md b/doc/api/errors.md index a86b835f66e..e9cf397ebc4 100644 --- a/doc/api/errors.md +++ b/doc/api/errors.md @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ not capture any frames. * {string} The `error.code` property is a string label that identifies the kind of error. -See [Node.js Error Codes][] for details about specific codes. +`error.code` is the most stable way to identify an error. It will only change between major versions of Node.js. In contrast, `error.message` strings may change between any versions of Node.js. See [Node.js Error Codes][] for details about specific codes. ### error.message |