Exceptions thrown in asynchronous javascript not caught

Question

Basically, why isn\'t this exception caught?

var http = require(\'http\'),
    options = {
      host: \'www.crash-boom-bang-please.com\',
      port: 80,
               


        

Answer 1

When you are throwing the error the try {} block has been long left, as the callback is invoked asynchronously outside of the try/catch. So you cannot catch it.

Do whatever you want to do in case of an error inside the error callback function.