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Improve the formula error messages
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Feature
Impact: High
Tech Debt
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
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Description
Ideas:
- make the messages more detailed and less generic
- make it easier to tell which cell/formula is the original source of the error (error propagation complicates it hugely)
Related: https://github.com/handsontable/hyperformula/issues/444
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading related issue #444 and tracing how formula errors propagate through HyperFormula's calculation engine. The work is complete when the project has agreed-on, more detailed messages and a way to identify the original source cell or formula.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100