Is it not possible to stringify an Error using JSON.stringify?

Question

Reproducing the problem

I\'m running into an issue when trying to pass error messages around using web sockets. I can replicate the issue I am facing using J

Answer 1

There is a great Node.js package for that: serialize-error.

npm install serialize-error

It handles well even nested Error objects.

import {serializeError} from 'serialize-error';

JSON.stringify(serializeError(error));

Docs: https://www.npmjs.com/package/serialize-error