40227-vm/frontend/docs/error-handling.md
Dmitri d4a5378adf Refactor: migrate frontend to Vite/React, add product backend modules
Frontend:
- Replace Next.js with Vite + React + TypeScript
- Add new component architecture (app-shell, sidebar, dashboard modules)
- Implement product modules: FRAME, safety protocols, walkthrough checkin,
  campus/staff attendance, personality quiz, sign language, classroom timer
- Add shadcn/ui component library with Tailwind CSS
- Remove legacy generated components, stores, and pages

Backend:
- Add product migrations: frame_entries, user_progress, safety_quiz_results,
  walkthrough_checkins, communication_events, personality_quiz_results,
  campus_attendance_config/summaries, staff_attendance_records, content_catalog
- Add corresponding models, services, and routes
- Implement cookie-based auth with refresh token rotation
- Add content catalog seeder with product content
- Migrate to ESLint flat config
- Switch from yarn to npm

Infrastructure:
- Update .gitignore for new tooling
- Add project documentation (CLAUDE.md, docs/)
- Remove deprecated config files and yarn.lock

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-09 15:18:23 +02:00

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Frontend Error Handling

Purpose

Frontend backend errors use a shared path:

  1. frontend/src/shared/api/httpClient.ts parses failed HTTP responses.
  2. ApiError preserves backend message, code, details, and HTTP status.
  3. AuthExpiredError represents expired or invalid cookie sessions.
  4. frontend/src/shared/errors/errorMessages.ts converts unknown errors into user-facing strings.

Views and business hooks should use getErrorMessage or getOptionalErrorMessage instead of reading .message directly.

Rules

  • Do not create local getErrorMessage helpers in feature components or hooks.
  • Do not read query.error.message or mutation.error.message directly in JSX.
  • Do not silently swallow backend failures or replace failed persisted workflows with fallback product data.
  • Auth expiration should redirect through the auth session flow, not display raw backend errors.
  • Runtime invariant errors, such as context hooks used outside providers, may still throw native Error instances.

Verification

frontend/src/shared/errors/errorMessages.test.ts covers the formatter contract for ApiError, AuthExpiredError, regular Error, and unknown values.