Present errors on serving requests to the user in a less verbose way
- Dominant language
- Dart
- Stars
- 224
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Description
We currently print warnings for all async `serveRequests` errors in webdev and other launchers of dwds:
https://github.com/dart-lang/webdev/blob/bfc9050d815287dc4d5ba0b7d03ffe0f1ef194c9/webdev/lib/src/serve/webdev_server.dart#L188
Those errors are very useful to investigate what is failing, but they are mostly recoverable and are very long. We should invent a way to hide them from the user without loosing the information in case they have caused a functionality problem and can help the investigation (for example, only output them in verbose mode, and save the verbose messages in a log file in non-verbose mode).
Related: https://github.com/dart-lang/webdev/issues/1520
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at webdev/lib/src/serve/webdev_server.dart around line 188, then trace the async serveRequests error handling in webdev and other dwds launchers. Review related issue #1520 and determine how normal and verbose output should differ while preserving errors for investigation. Done means recoverable errors are less verbose for users without losing useful diagnostic information.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- dart
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100