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Modern error handling with react-error-boundary

Modern error handling with react-error-boundary

Hello, and welcome! In this session, you are going to learn how to handle errors in your React applications like a modern developer. For a long time, error boundaries were only possible using class components, which made them a bit cumbersome in a world of hooks and functional components. I am going to show you how the React Error Boundary library completely changes the game. Our goal is to simplify and modernize error handling in functional components, enabling you to create clean fallback UIs and powerful reset mechanisms, all without writing a single class. Let's start with our basic React template. Alright, let's get started by installing the react-error-boundary package. This will pull in the library and all its dependencies so we can start using it in our components. Okay, now that we have the react-error-boundary package installed, let's set up our basic component structure. I'm going to create a components folder inside our source directory. Within that folder, we'll create…

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