Make node.js not exit on error

Question

I am working on a websocket oriented node.js server using Socket.IO. I noticed a bug where certain browsers aren\'t following the correct connect procedure to the server, an

Answer 1

Had a similar problem. Ivo's answer is good. But how can you catch an error in a loop and continue?

var folder='/anyFolder';
fs.readdir(folder, function(err,files){
    for(var i=0; i<files.length; i++){
        var stats = fs.statSync(folder+'/'+files[i]);
    }
});

Here, fs.statSynch throws an error (against a hidden file in Windows that barfs I don't know why). The error can be caught by the process.on(...) trick, but the loop stops.

I tried adding a handler directly:

var stats = fs.statSync(folder+'/'+files[i]).on('error',function(err){console.log(err);});

This did not work either.

Adding a try/catch around the questionable fs.statSynch() was the best solution for me:

var stats;
try{
    stats = fs.statSync(path);
}catch(err){console.log(err);}

This then led to the code fix (making a clean path var from folder and file).