Use try/catch to handle errors

Actions might fail silently if you don't explicitly handle errors. To ensure your hooks are robust and maintainable, always wrap actions in try/catch blocks.

You can use try/catch to:

Catch and log errors for debugging
Implement fallback behavior when actions fail
Prevent your hook from crashing unexpectedly

This example tries to download from a non-existent website:

module.exports = async function (payload, actions) {
  try {
    const { data } = await actions.http.get('https://no-such-website.dev');
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Error occured: ', err)
  }
}

Here is the result of the test run:

Best practices:

Always include try/catch blocks around actions that might fail
Use descriptive error messages that help identify the failure point
Consider whether to throw errors or handle them gracefully
Log errors appropriately using console.error()

❌ Incorrect usage:

module.exports = async function (payload, actions) {
	// No error handling!
	const { data } = await actions.http.get('https://no-such-website.dev');
	console.log('Downloaded page: ', data)
}