Inheriting from the Error object - where is the message property?

Question

I noticed a strange behavior while defining custom error objects in Javascript:

function MyError(msg) {
    Error.call(this, msg);
    this.name = \"MyError\         


        

Answer 1

In Node.js you can create a custom error like this:

var util = require('util');

function MyError(message) {
  this.message = message;
  Error.captureStackTrace(this, MyError);
}

util.inherits(MyError, Error);

MyError.prototype.name = 'MyError';

See captureStackTrace in node docs