How to do Crash Reporting for Web Apps

Question

When I develop iPhone / iPad apps I always use a crash reporting system. My current favorite is Crashlytics - which works great.

For Android apps I've been using the rather more basic ACRA crash reporter.

Now that I'm building a webapp to be run on a client's own server, it seems a good idea to build in some kind of crash reporting system, probably linked off the window.onerror event.

Of course, I could build my own system. But does anyone know a good drop-in solution that sends and collates reports?

Incidentally, I'd prefer a completely client-side solution (i.e. just JavaScript) rather than anything that requires server support.

Leger

Answer 1

Both Exceptional and Airbrake offer javascript implementations

• Airbrake
• Exceptional

Update

Exceptional was officially shut down in favor of Airbrake (Source)

Galumph

Thanks Tim, I'll check those out. Looks like the AirBrake one is experimental so might not put that into production quite yet :-) – Leger

Also checkout TrackJS. The tricky bit about crash reporting for JavaScript is that the errors themselves don't give you enough context to really understand what happened. TrackJS captures this extra context to give you recreation steps of the bug. – Mile

Please do not edit my answer to add your own product. Instead, write your own answer and explain in detail why your product is better. – Galumph

Answer 2

Whilst not currently supported by iOS, a number of browser platforms now support the W3C Reporting API which can be useful for reporting of crash and other analytics. For some examples see the MDN page on the Reporting API.

Descend

interesting - thanks! I didn't know that existed until now – Leger