I have a script written in node.js, it uses 'net' library and communicates with distant service over tcp. This script is started using 'node script.js >> log.txt' command and everything in that script that is logged using console.log() function gets written to log.txt but sometimes script dies and I cannot find a reason and nothing gets logged in log.txt around the time script crashed.
How can I capture crash reason?
Couldn't you listen to uncaughtException event. Something along the lines of =>
process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
console.log('Caught exception: ' + err);
});
P.S: after that you are adviced to restart process according to this article from Felix Geisendörfer
It's much easier to capture exceptions by splitting stdout and stderr. Like so:
node script.js 1> log.out 2> err.out
By default, node logs normal output to stdout, which I believe you are capturing with >>.